After I posted the iron and ash vase last week got
me thinking to the sheer number of pots I have made in that combination of
glazes, certainly a thousand and more. While going over this combo I remembered
a lone bowl that was made as an extras from a set of six that hung around the
studio for quite some time until a couple came and took it and a number of
other pots home as gifts for a holiday past. I know it will sound odd that I
would remember this single bowl which is illustrated but it spent some time
near the wheel, covered in clay splatter and filled with slip brushes so i
finally decided to clean it up and take a few photos. Though I made extras of
the set, the customers picked six of the seven available and left this one
which I was particularly happy with as the lines of the form and glaze came out
rather well but the ash on the upper half was just different, almost chatoyant
in nature like looking in to a wild cat's eyes. Once cleaned up and set on a
shelf it became far game and was the first thing sold as some clients came to
the studio, I still wonder if I should have left it clay coated and filled with
brushes.
And because, who doesn't like Gordon Lightfoot;
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