About this Product
This Hand Carved Ranunculus Bowl with Taped Design
Measures: 4-1/4" wide x 3-1/4" high. (10.79cm x 8.25cm)
Wheel-thrown on the potter's wheel with trimmed footring on the bottom.
Neriage effect utilizing red and light apricot porcelain clay.
Four carved ranunculus flower blossoms around the top circumference. Alternating top of flower blossom with bottom of flower blossom.
Taped design all around this round bowl with red neriage background on the predominant top portion of the bowl, and light apricot neriage background on the very bottom of the bowl. (approximately 1" from footring upwards).
Carved ranunculus are glazed with lead free clear.
Purple checks are glazed with an Eggplant glossy glaze.
The rest of the checkered design has no clear on it, and is slightly rougher to touch than the glazed portion
(Please see "How It's Made" section for more detail on design.
Wheel thrown and hand glazed by me.
Standard 365 Porcelain.
Glazed with lead free, dinnerware safe clear glaze.
Please hand wash this bowl.
Kiln fired to cone 6 (2232 degrees F.)
Engraved with my signature on the bottom.
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 handmade decorative and functional round bowl took quite awhile to make, but the process was enjoyable.
It began its journey on the potter's wheel. Two colored porcelain clay colors - red and light apricot. They spun around on the wheel and where the color lands as the sides are pulled up, is all but a mystery. I can aim the colors, but it is still up to fate where they end up. This final color placement is what determines where each decoration begins and ends. Usually there is a swirl of color on the pottery, but this one landed with not much of a swirl. That meant I could really decorate this without the swirl distracting the checks.
After wheel-throwing, a footring was carved into the bottom of the bowl.
At leather hard stage (not dry and no longer wet clay) four ranunculus flower blossoms were carved into the circumference of the bowl, alternating between the top half of a blossom with the bottom half of a blossom.
Into the bisque firing after sufficient drying. (1945ºF kiln temperature Cone 04)
After this initial firing, the bowl was taped, and taped some more, with a very narrow detailing tape I purchase online. This taping is the most time consuming, as the colored clay placement allowed me to decorate the entire non-carved areas. The taped areas create negative spaces, which are glazed with different colors. Three thin coats for each color. After the tape is removed (the fun part), the design is exposed.
Into the second firing (2232ºF kiln temperature).
After the bowl enters the kiln for the final glaze firing, and kiln cooling.
Open the kiln and . . . VOILA! EXHALE!
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.
