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.
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