Glazing Three Large Bowls in a Mossy Green Glaze #pottery

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I’ve had these three large stoneware bowls sitting around for a while now, truth be told I’m not entirely happy with their shapes, they’re well-made but were created some six-months ago and had I thrown them today I would have done some things differently. So, to clear the decks I just coated them with a thin layer of mossy green glaze and reduction fired them, it’s about time I made a new salad bowl to use at home. These all just about fit in the bucket, there was perhaps a millimetre or two on either side so I needed to be really careful about dipping them in and drawing them out. I did hear some scraping of the rim, but once lifted out those scratched areas had been recovered in glaze and were good to go. The next step is fettling the surfaces clean and for this I tend to shapes like this upside-down on a pad of foam placed upon a stack of tubs of raw materials, this way the rim doesn’t come into contact with any surface, where it could be potentially damaged. I rub over the tong marks with my fingertips, letting the excess dust that comes off fill them up and then I scrape back any drip so that it’s in line with the rest of the surface of glaze. The foot is the most important part though, as if I let the glaze around this area rough and wavering, once fired it would look forgotten about and unconsidered, instead I spend a lot of time making sure it’s beautifully wiped clean and neat. They’re then reduction fired in my gas kiln to cone ten, allowed to cool for a few days, and then they’re plucked out, still hot, their bases sanded smooth, and that’s these three mossy green bowls finally complete. #pottery #bowl #glaze #glazing #satisfying #celadon #ceramics