JUST ONE OR TWO MORE

I am not exactly sure how it looks to you but there is just enough clay left under this faceted teabowl to throw just one more bowl. I thought I was at the end when I threw and faceted this stoneware teabowl but soon realized there was enough for another go around on a slightly more conservative bowl minus any faceting. I enjoy making bowls this way using what is left over from a mound of clay that was originally intended for a group of more or less the same pots, in this case the same group of lids, about 10" across that I had mentioned in a previous post now tooled, bisque, glazed and fired. This particular teabowl was thrown on the thick side and then faceted to create a sharp, visually defining band around the bottom third of the bowl which is both an aesthetic and design decision as the glaze pools around these raised areas. I have also gotten the foot to approximately where it needed to be but will fine tune it to have a bit more taper and flair when it gets to that stage. Once cut off the mound, I coned up the remaining clay and immediately threw a simple, mostly straight sided bowl that I plan on using for testing down the road, it may not have looked like it but there was plenty of clay to go around.