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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 311862, member: 45&quot;]It&#039;s contemporary studio pottery, thrown on a potter&#039;s wheel, and fired with a post-firing reduction technique, also called American raku, and often just &quot;raku,&quot; even though it really isn&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a technique credited to American potter Paul Soldner, who developed it in the late 1950s.&nbsp; He was influenced by traditional Japanese Raku pottery, but his approach and technique created a distinctly different type of pottery from the Japanese.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>He taught hundreds of classes and workshops in the next few decades, introducing American raku to tens of thousands of potters (and non-potters), world-wide, so it may not be possible to determine exactly who made this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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