TWO-TIER

This teabowl came out of my last stoneware firing a while back and is just a slight deviation from the other teabowls in that I created two tiers of faceting. The two raised bands created by the intermittent faceting create a wobbly ridge that feels good to the hand and brings the eye round and round the bowl like a rollercoaster for the less adventurous. Perhaps the best feature of adding the additional ridge is that it collects all the more glaze which also highlights the cuts and brings a clear focus to the dark, pooled glaze which has a slightly mysterious quality. I realize this is not terribly different than the other teabowls of this style that I posted but I am not finished with this idea and it is always interesting to fool around with the formula and see what comes about. Let's face it, practice is supposed to make things perfect.

"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand." Neil Armstrong