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A conjoined bowl glazed in floating blue.

Conjoined Bowl

Once you have used them you wonder what you did without them.

Spoon Rests

Dinner plates made from toasted clay - from the Semi Naked Pots series that are unglazed on the outside.

Dinner Plates

Terracotta salad plates glazed with Turkish green.

Terracotta Salad Plate

Green bowls made from toasted clay - from the Semi Naked Pots series that are unglazed on the outside.

Green Bowls

Blue medium sized bowl made from toasted clay - from the Semi Naked Pots series that are unglazed on the outside.

Blue Bowl

White medium sized bowl made from toasted clay - from the Semi Naked Pots series that are unglazed on the outside.

White Bowl

Pale blue medium sized bowl made from toasted clay - from the Semi Naked Pots series that are unglazed on the outside.

Pale Blue Bowl

I made these tankards at Argyle Pottery at the beginning of January 2022. Note how pale the floating blue glaze is on this light clay body.

Tankards

A 10inch vase in an off white glaze that breaks red over edges.

Coil Built Vase

Glazed in a Nuka glazed and fired to 1300c in the gas kiln.

Slab Built Bottle

A large slab bottle made with crank clay fired to 1300c in a gas kiln. Glaze with a Nuka glaze that should be white.

Slab Bottle

Slab vase made with stoneware clay fired to cone 6 (1230-1240c) in an electric kiln with Floating Blue glaze.

Slab Vase

Small bud vase on stoneware clay with two layered glazes.

Small Bud Vase

Bud vase with two layered glazes.

Bud Vase

Small bud vase with folk art guide white glaze. I have always liked how this breaks red over edges.

Bud Vase

Stoneware mug glazed with PB Celadon and fired to 1300c in the gas kiln

Celadon Mug

A mug fired in the gas kiln to 1300c and glazed with a Nuka glaze - the ash used in the recipe appears to have phosphorus in hence the blue.

Mug Nuka

A mug glazed with Mino Shino glaze fired to 1300c in the gas kiln. This is a white glaze that turns red where the flames hit it.

Shino Mug

Made using a toasted iron rich stoneware clay and glazed with Folk Art Guide white to 1240c.

Toasted Mug

Stoneware fired to 1240c

Mug

Mugs made at Argyll Pottery under the eye of Hugh MacTavish. He glazed them with Tenmuko prior to firing them in his wood fired kiln.

Mugs

Stoneware fired to 1240c with one glaze partially layered over the top of another.

Two Tone Mug

Stoneware mug fired to 1240c using a combination of two glazes layered over one another.

Mug - combination glazed.

Set of stoneware tumblers - floating blue glaze on stoneware clay.

Tumblers

A tumbler made with special fleck stoneware clay with a celadon glaze fired to 1300c in the gas kiln.

Celadon Tumbler

A small bowl made with flecked stoneware glazed in white on the inside only and fired in the gas kiln to 1300c.

Small bowl

Large serving dish made using stoneware clay and glazed with floating blue fired to 1240c.

Serving Dish

Large bowl for fruit or salad but also could be used from oven to table. Made using a clay that is highly resistant to thermal shock.

Large Bowl

Large fruit bowl. Glazed with floating blue over black on stoneware clay.

Fruit Bowl

A baker although housing some chillies. Stoneware fired to 1240c with floating blue glaze.

Baker

Another baker in stoneware with floating blue glaze.

Baker

Baker made using stoneware glazed in a Bala Blue glaze.

Baker

Salt pig. Hand thrown then altered. Made with stoneware and glazed with Broken Blue glaze.

Salt Pig

Butter keeper made using stoneware and glazed with Bala Blue and fired to 1240c

Butter Keeper

Butter is keep in the inner pot. The outer is partially filled with water creating an airlock when the inner is inserted into the outer.

Butter Keeper

Stoneware lidded canister in floating blue.

Cannister

With top removed.

Lidded Canister

Two glazes layered one over the other.

Lidded Canister

Lidded casserole made with special fleck stoneware clay with floating blue glaze.

Lidded Casserole

As previous casserole minus it’s lid.

Lidded Casserole

Large dinner plate made with special fleck stoneware clay. Glazed with PB Celadon and fired to 1300c in the gas kiln.

Dinner Plate

Large dinner plate in stoneware glazed in blue black glaze. Commissioned by the Chefs Eye restaurant in Largs, Scotland.

Dinner Plate

Part of an eight piece dinner service made for a wedding present for a special couple. Baja Blue on ES5 clay.

Large Dinner Plate

Stack of dinner plates showing the floating blue glaze breaking over the edges.

Plate Stack

A pair of hand built earthenware plates with slip decoration under a honey glaze.

Earthenware Plates

Earthenware thrown plate with slip decoration under a transparent glaze.

Earthenware Plate

A small stoneware pot glazed in a shino fired to 1300c in the gas kiln.

Small Pot

A pot that has had texture applied after it was thrown. A nice subtle green glaze.

Small Plant Pot

That is the Scottish wee and not to be confused with a chamber pot. A lovely glaze that forms into crystals.

Wee Pot

Whisky sipper in stoneware with Folk Art Guild White glaze.

Whisky Sipper

Stoneware with Baja Blue glaze.

Whisky Sipper

Facet tea bowl fired to 1300c in the gas kiln.

Faceted Tea Bowl

A faceted tea bowl with a shino glaze fired to 1300c in the gas kiln.

Faceted Tea Bowl

Tea bowl in black clay with a blue glaze.

Faceted Tea Bowl

Stoneware tea bowl with one glaze layered over the other.

Faceted Tea Bowl