A ROUND PEG IN A SQUARE HOLE

I recently made a series of terra cotta v-bowls and pasta bowls and realized I had all these squarish spaces  between where the bowls would be stacked in the kiln. Realizing that the spaces were a bit narrow for teabowls or soup bowls it made sense that I needed to make round pegs to go in these square holes and settled on two groups of six mugs. This illustrated group of mugs were first coated in black and then trailed in white slip letting gravity do most of the work. The mugs are fairly generous in their proportions being over 5" tall and each of the handles is finished off with an applied thumb rest which I like to add which also matches the applied button on the foot where I impress my pottery mark. Another feature that you can't see in the picture is that at the base of each handle is impressed a decorative stamp that just adds another feature to each mug and is something I have just seemed to done going back to CSU and perhaps even back to my early days working in Plattsburgh, I just can't remember at this point. These mugs were fired this weekend and the kiln is quietly cooling as I type this so I will post up a photo of the finished product(s) at some point in the near future.