Xena's Wheel Thrown + Handbuilt Serving Bowl

 

The serving bowl was given and graced ("graced") our Labor Day table. As planned, it coordinates with Mom's Fiesta ware. She also said it is one of her favorite shades of blue, even more so than her lighter and deeper Fiesta ware. <3 The glaze is called Spotted Purple.

The Swedish horses are special to us- our Swedish family was from the same area as the carved horses. I hoped the glaze might accent them even though the stamp (speedball speedy carve) was designed for paper and not for clay, which meant they are so shallow. 

This exact glaze didn't do that. It filled them in and smoothed them out. But the horses are still nice- a little secret- and it's interesting to see how the studio's glazes differ. 

As promised by our instructors, the clay remembered being wonky and went back to it in the final firing. One said you are not even supposed to let the piece flex when you take it off of the bat. Mom loves dishes and has every dish so to find something wheel thrown she even kind of needed, I had to make something beyond my Intro to Wheel skills. In class we keep making mug after mug, essentially by accident after setting out to make something else. Maybe because mugs are the size and shape of our cupped hands. But Mom has a shelf full of her favorite size and shape mugs plus a display shelf of her mom's favorite (which are small because you used to sit down and drink coffee as an activity, and just keep pouring cups from the... carafe). So it had to be this.