Some of the newly glazed pots are now in various places around our house.
Side Table
Our dining room side table has a table runner from our friend Joan and a painting done by another friend, Linda.
The vase on the left is about 12 inches high and 5 inches in diameter at the widest point. The top is glazed with Ida's White and has brown speckles where the iron in the clay burned through. The bottom is Tenmoku, a dark red mat glaze. The band around the middle is Jet Black, a shiny glaze. I left bands above end below the black band un-glazed. I like the look of bare fired clay.
The vase on the right is about 9 inches tall and 4 inches in diameter. Most of the vase is rough, bare clay. I use a tool to make rings around the pot to make the surface rough. The top is glazed with Tortoise Shell. Some of it is dark red, some of it is blue.
Fireplace Mantle
The fireplace mantle has an abstract painting we picked up at Target and a water-color done by a neighbor.
You may recognize the pot on the right from the June 7, 2010 blog entry.
The one on the left is a new one, about 11 inches high and 7.5 inches in diameter.
The inside is glazed with clear (like almost all my vases). The bottom was dipped on an angle in Tenmoku and the top was dipped on an angle in Ida's White. A bare clay wedge was left between the glazed parts.
End Table
One of the vases from this kiln batch was glazed with Vegas Red on the top. The resulting color almost perfectly matched a lamp on one of our end tables.
