T'ANG DRAGON

It has been quite some time since I have used any of my appliqué stamps which took some searching as they were hidden away in a box in bubble wrap and buried on a seldom accessed shelf with small bags of chemicals stacked in front. Once recovered I decided on making some pieces loosely based on a T'ang style dragon, by way of a Danish skonvirke brooch to be applied on to a coarse and sandy white stoneware clay body of my own formulation. The picture shows the end result where I tried to create a T'ang sancai effect on each of the medallions while the remainder of the teabowl was glazed in a clear and my AO+ glaze. The teabowl has three medallions around the almost straight sided form that has its surface broken up by the small pits and sand punctuating the surface while the medallions are made of the same clay body minus the sand and small stones. In the end for a quickly rendered piece among a group of five or so pieces used with glazes not even tested for this technique the first group came out surprising well and none of the appliqué medallions exploded off the pots which is a plus in my book.