SAFFRON FACETS

This teabowl was part of a recently fired group of similar pots where I was trying to figure out how each glaze and glaze combination worked on this idea. This teabowl is glazed in my saffron, iron yellow glaze, dipped once and where the glaze ran and pooled around the horizontal projections it built up creating a darker area as well as running over the edges with a neat effect reminding me of some glaze attributes of Agano-Takatori wares. The translucent nature of the surface allows the way the clay was dealt with while wet to show through which is a nice feature of this glaze making the piece static, almost like it came directly off the wheelhead. I suspect the next steps will be to see what slips look like over this faceting and under the effects of the saffron surface hopefully creating another, distinct look.