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Floral Bowl
Copper Green Glaze
  4" H  x  11" D

 Item: OLS-WF-122

SOLD

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Copper Green

Copper, when used in glazes that are wood fired, can create wonderful effects.
 

Glazes that contain copper react to the ash and the kiln’s atmosphere
 producing a wide range of colors such as metallic black,
  copper green, red & fuchsia.

 

Wad Marks

Sodium (salt glazing) and fly ash (wood firing) create glaze on the pots and on kiln shelves where the pots sit.  Wadding prevents pots in Wood Firing and Salt Glazing from fusing to the kiln shelves. 
 The size, shape and materials used for wadding,
are important aesthetic considerations for the potter.  In addition to preventing pots from fusing to shelves, wadding acts as a color resist and reveals flame flashing patterns

 

Forms

Robert’s pottery focuses on form and process rather than decoration.  He feels a strong but simple form, offers as much to the eye as painted patterns.  This belief results in pieces which are thrown and then altered.
 His altered forms are finished in a manner which takes advantage of the firing process. Effects such as “flashing” from wood firing, or “fluxing” from salt glazing, produces patterns impossible to achieve with a paint brush 

 

 

Floral Bowl
Copper Green Glaze
  4" H  x  11" D

 Item: OLS-WF-122
"SOLD"

Robert Compton Pottery
2662 North 116 Road, Bristol, Vermont 05443, U.S.A.
Phone: 802-453-3778
E-mail Robert & Christine

 

06/15/08

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