Post 213 New Pots

Another batch of pot from the kiln; all of these smaller ones. I'm developing a number of smaller bonsai for my old age so have been producing a batch of mostly Ovals between 250 and 220mm lengths. I have thought for some time about the idea of stamping/ pattern impressing the walls of a pot and then getting variation in the glaze through different depths in the patterns. There are a few here.

First up is Pot 237 a small semi cascade, which ended up at 135 x 140 x 100 in mid brown glaze.

Pot 238 at 220 x 175 x 55 is an Oval in a Butterscotch glaze with added Iron. The RIO too the edge off the yellow of the butterscotch with a little bronze highlight not clear in the picture. Very nice.

 I was too impatient and went out and put a tree in this one straight away. I'd made it for this Gardenia which has four G.radicans slips grafted onto an old garden G.florida stump. A couple of years and in flower it will be hard to beat.
Pot 239 at 250 x 195 x 55, an Oval in a dark almost metallic satin blue.
 

 Pot 240 is an Oval at 235 x 180 x 55. It has an impressed 'basket-weave' pattern in the wall and rimless. Glaze is beige with breaking rust.

Another one I was quick off the mark with. Pot 241 at 210 x 155 x 55 is a rimless Oval with 'X' impressed wall and lime green glaze.

Pot 243 at 250 x 195 x 55, Oval, has the same wall relief and glaze as Pot 241, and has a rounder rim.

Pot 245 at 220 x 175 x 55 is a fairly upright straight walled Oval with light wall texturing and a flat mid blue glaze.

 Pot 246, 250 x 195 x 55 is a regular Oval pot with square rim and an off-white glaze with slight green tone.

Pot 247, 220 x 175 x 55 is an Oval with rounded rim and basket-weave impressed wall. Mid-blue glaze.

 Pot 248 is a Bowed Wall Rectangular at 250 x 180 x 55 in light brown satin glaze.

I have some more to post yet from a later firing. Some of these new ones I have been experimenting with unglazed pots inspired by the rugged sophistication of neolithic engraved and slip decorated pots. Soon.