Green Circled Bowl (P133)
Catalogue Record
Collection
Maker
Mary Rogers
Title
Green Circled Bowl
Made in
Leicestershire
Date
1977
Description
Round porcelain bowl on a raised foot, with green dot decoration.
Materials and techniques
Oxidised porcelain with semi-matt white glaze decorated with copper oxide. Hand-modelled by pinching the form out of one ball of clay; the foot ring added separately. The oxide painted on to the raw clay before firing. Biscuit fired at 960 deg. C; glaze fired at 1300 deg. C more than once.
Dimensions
height: 11.4cm
diameter (rim): 12cm
diameter (foot): 5cm
Object number
P133
Category
Maker's statement
It is one of the latest pieces in which I am exploiting the way in which repeated firings make the colour pass through the walls, giving layers of different colour intensity. I will be experimenting with this during my bursary.