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Small Baking Dish with Green Ash Glaze
$36.00
Functional Pottery
This hand-made line of functional pottery is produced primarily for the wholesale market and is sold at craft galleries and gift shops throughout the country. It was designed for every day use and its ability to withstand thermal shock and conduct heat make it ideal for baking, while the relatively lightweight forms and attractive designs make it suitable for serving on any table.
A limited collection is set aside for customers who do not live near one of the stores that sell this pottery. These items can be purchased directly on-line through the "Products" page on this site, which has pictures of all the items currently available and is updated after each kiln firing.
How It's Made
This product line is wheel-thrown at a studio in Falmouth, Kentucky. The clay is a unique stoneware body that I mix on the premises using a carefully selected blend of the highest quality materials available.
The
glazes are based on readily available materials such as hardwood ash and clay dug near the studio with the addition of a few other ceramic materials to balance them out.
Some of the colors come from the naturally-occuring iron in the surface clay I make the glazes from. Small additions of other metal oxides are also introduced to enhance the colors and then the glazes are applied in layers so that, as they melt in the firing, they all react with each other to give each piece it's own unique look.
This product line is always going through a subtle evolution as new and better ways to combine the same basic glazes present themselves, with the goal of always improving its usefulness for every day life.
The pottery is fired with waste vegetable oil in a 70 cubic foot car kiln to 2400°F and is one of the only production kilns in the country fired this way.