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while back I fired a kiln load of pots that included some new slip variations
that was intended as something of a proving ground. The previous pots had all been teabowl
size and in this firing I included pots from about 10" to 14" tall to
make sure the results came out about the same as the scale increased. Illustrated is an Oribe bottle,
a bit over 12" tall with thicker raked slip under the glaze creating a
rather organic surface on a very controlled bottle form. The slip and surface
worked out well on all the pieces with no pinholes and a nice contrast between
surface and form. Since I am not often inclined to make pots bigger than about
16" tall finished I put a check in the "worked" column for this particular
technique as two water jars and two bottle vases came out pretty close to how I
hoped they would and that is always a win in my book.
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