Artistic Showcase

These pieces were completed in March 2010, right in the days leading up to Gulf Wars.

I made a set of feastware for a lovely woman, Ann of Walton Woods. She particularly liked a sample piece of mine that she saw, and mentioned with great warmth the rim of warm, rustic brown caused by the running of Mottled Red under Celestial Blue. I took great pains to achieve that brown rim. As it turned out, though, I’d misunderstood her enthusiasm for that brown rim as an indication that she wanted it herself.

This is a set of feastware that I made for my own use in historical re-enactment. I say I made it, but it’s not entirely true. The cups with handles, I didn’t make. Someone else made them as test pieces, bisque-fired them, and decided she didn’t like them, so she put them on the “free to a good home” pile. I took the pieces and glazed them to go with my set. The glazes are Mottled Red all over, and Caramel  for part of the rim and/or inside of each piece.