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Arabesque (Photo by Randall Page)

Pot - 4
Pot - 4

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This pot (10”x71/2”) is certainly a labor of love. I worked on a few of these to see if I could approach the technique with any skill. It is a smaller version of a vase by Masayuki Miyajima that I saw in the January 2006 issue of Ceramics Monthly. It is a Japanese Karakusa (arabesque) sqraffito design. The pot has a white raku body. This was coated with an iron-based clay slip and then carved through to make the design. After bisque firing, it was covered with a turquoise glaze and a specially formulated white glaze that seperates in interesting patterns was applied to the lip. It was fired in a propane kiln and reduced in sawdust. It was again fired to cone 07 and “fumed”! This process involves firing a small brick with the pot. Then removing both and placing them on sand. Next, a mixture of poisonous chemicals (Bismuth Subnitrate, Stannous Chloride, and Strontium Nitrate) is placed onto the glowing brick and both brick and pot are covered with a can so that none of the gasses can escape. Inside, the fumes coat the glass on the pot with a colorful reflective surface. This process has been call the “hue of light” and it was progressed by the potter Biz Littel.