VARIOUS FACETS

I mentioned last week that in an effort to work out this faceting idea that I had also made several other pots including bowls and vase forms. Illustrated is a medium size bowl that was faceted rather directly with a standing ridge dividing the form in half horizontally that had just come off the wheel head. One of the things that I like about this technique is that it creates a number of hard lines and areas that will break and/ or trap glaze making for a richer surface using my temmoku, Oribe or iron yellow letting the throwing and faceting being the only decoration that is necessary. Like other pieces before this one, I will facet the foot, finishing it in a hexagonal or octagonal shape with the interior tooled into a normal foot-ring, this helps tie the bowl and foot together. It may be obvious that this serving bowl is not quite as deformed or altered as the teabowl and water jar were, I thought a more straight forward form would make for a slightly easier to use pot while keeping the overall sensibilty that I was after intact in the form in other words, just the smallest nod to conservatisms which has never hurt anyone, has it?