About this Product
This Handmade Wheel-thrown and Hand Carved Zinnia Cat Bowl Measures:
5" wide x 1-3/8" high. (12.7cm x 3.75cm)
This would be a very special cat lover's gift!
There probably are not too many cats that eat out of a hand-carved cat bowl.
Whisker Friendly cat food bowl. Cat food or water bowl. Low sides keep cat's whiskers out of their food, and keep their sensitive whiskers from touching a deep bowl's sides.
Can also be used to accommodate jewelry, coins, or perhaps to serve a couple bonbons.
Outside - Titanium yellow (an antique white) colored porcelain mixed with white porcelain (to create a neriage or marbled effect), carved and coated with a clear, lead-free, dinnerware safe glaze.
The marbling is subtly visible on the bottom of this cat bowl. There is no glaze 1/4" up from the footring. The footring has been ground smooth with a diamond sanding disk on the potter's wheel.
Inside - A soft, glossy light blue glaze on the interior of this cat bowl, overlapping the darker blue below the rim glaze. This layering effect creates drippy sides. Swirls on the bottom are clearly visible, and the titanium yellow clay shows through the high areas. There are tiny speckles in the light blue glaze.
Rim - Glossy titanium yellow.
Wheel thrown and hand glazed by me.
Standard 365 Porcelain.
Glazed with lead free, dinnerware safe clear glaze.
Dishwasher, microwave and oven safe.
Kiln fired to cone 6 (2232 degrees F.)
Engraved with my signature on the bottom.
Because of the delicate carving, it would be best to hand wash this piece of pottery.
All of our Etsy Shop Pottery is either wheel-thrown or handbuilt in our North Carolina home studio.
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Meet the Maker
Teresa Tromp
Dennis Tromp
My son, Dennis, and I create Colored Porcelain, Functional Pottery on the potter's wheel, and/or handbuild using slabs, coils or pressing clay into a plaster or bisque mold that we wheel-throw on the potter's wheel.
There are various Colored Porcelain Clay techniques we are constantly experimenting with.
Neriage - a wheel throwing technique which involves 2 or more colored porcelain clays, spun on the wheel, integrating the colors.
Nerikomi - a hand building technique piecing together different sections of colored porcelain design, and either forming a slab built vessel or a press molded vessel.
This is perhaps the most difficult colored porcelain clay technique, as cracks can occur at any stage of the process. (the unmentionables - cracks)
Mishima - this technique can be applied to handbuilt or wheel-thrown pottery. After the greenware (or raw) clay has stiffened to leather hard stage (not quite bone dry, but dryer than wet clay) a design is engraved into the clay. The grooves, or channels created during the engraving process, are filled with a colored slip (wet, colored clay). After this dries sufficiently, the excess slip is scraped off, leaving the surface of the pottery smooth and level.
Sgraffito - sgraffito is an Italian word meaning - to scratch. This colored porcelain clay technique is the opposite of mishima. A layer of slip (wet clay) is applied to the surface of the pottery, and then a design is carved into the wet slip. This etching reveals the color underneath the slip. With sgraffito, the design is not flush to the surface of the pottery; it is slightly raised, and the etched design does not get filled in.
Relief Carving - I enjoy carving colored porcelain clay with various flowers and sometimes leaves with a bas-relief, or low relief design..
We color all of our porcelain by hand to create one of a kind color combinations.
Selling our work helps inspire the journey.
Your purchase(s), not only allow us to pay for more pottery supplies, but they also motivate us to produce a greater finished product.
Thank you to all the people who have helped inspire us along the way.
How it’s Made
This piece was wheel-thrown on the potter's wheel. After the piece was trimmed (footring), and allowed to dry to leather hard stage (not wet clay, and not bone dry) eight zinnia blossoms were carved out of the yellow clay.
Shop Policies
Processing Time:
Weather permitting, we ship between 1 to 3 business days from your order date.
Shipping Rate:
All of our handmade pottery ships FREE USPS PRIORITY. PRIORITY Shipping assures your delicate pottery arrives faster than other shipping methods. We do not ship anything faster than Priority.
Return Policy:
You may return your pottery to us within 14 days of its tracking number delivery. Customer is responsible for return shipping charges.
Shipping Pottery: When packing your pottery for shipping, I will always pad the box with plastic pillows, and recycled newspaper. Each item is wrapped in bubble wrap.
Care Instructions:
Most of our pottery is dishwasher, microwave and oven safe (up to 400ºF), however it is always best to handwash handmade pottery, especially if there is delicate carving on the vessel.
For oven use, we recommend placing in a cold oven and heating to 400°F maximum. Especially important is do not place it over an open flame or stove top. DO NOT place a frozen dish directly in the oven because it will cause an extreme temperature change and may crack the vessel.
My son, Dennis, and I want you to be happy with your pottery purchase from our home based pottery studio, here in North Carolina.
We are not production potters, and do not normally create more than two items that might resemble each other in appearance. All of our pottery is one of a kind, and not duplicated.
We do not accept custom orders at this time. HOWEVER, if there is something you'd like to see in our inventory, such as a particular flower or color, or color combination, it can be inspiring to our creative process.
