THIS IS JUST A TEST

In the last terra cotta firing I did (in Dec.) I decided to glaze and decorate a single majolica teabowl to see if the five year old glaze (?) was still good as it stood in a bucket, totally dehydrated and was hard as a rock. I set about slaking it down and reconstituting it for dipping and the test was ready to decorate and fire. I resorted to one of the most simple designs I could think of using cobalt, copper and black stain to decorate the bowl and this is what I ended up with. It proved two things, the glaze is still good and majolica looks really quite nice against a very dark background. I should also mention that this pot has now been relegated to the island of testing misfits and one-offs landing for use in the  kitchen so it panned out to be a halfway decent use of clay, glaze and time.