I suspect at its core, this surface probably seems like a
lot of the surfaces I like working with, this one is a bit subtle but I think
has some potential for being upscaled at least to a teabowl size before I
decide if I should continue on. Using a small faceted guinomi this is a bit
different in that the base glaze has an ash glaze over it that also has some
manganese carbonate in it, a material that doesn’t get nearly enough credit but,
in this case, where it had a secondary “dose" applied with a brush, it creates
nice waterfalls of streaking that perks up the surface quite a bit. As you can see in the picture, the surface
runs quite a bit as well which is why the ash glaze was only dipped to the
skirt and still managed to run all the way down to the foot where it looks like
a disaster must have occurred but through kiln-god providence, it stopped a
micron short of becoming one with the plinth it was fired on. Time to make up a
bit more glaze and sacrifice a teabowl to the spirits of testing.
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