Fluted Tenmouku Glazed Stoneware Bowl (P142a)
Catalogue Record
Collection
Maker
David Leach
Title
Fluted Tenmouku Glazed Stoneware Bowl
Made in
Devon
Date
1977
Description
Stoneware bowl with a black and red/brown tenmouku glaze and fluted line decoration.
Materials and techniques
Stoneware body made up of two Devon ball clays, one Dorset ball clay plus fine grog. Makes a very plastic throwable body. The bowl is thrown and then turned and fluted in the leather hard state. Biscuit fired at 950 deg.C and then glazed in tenmouku glaze which is a high iron felspathic glaze. Fired in a reducing atmosphere at 1300 deg.C - 1320 deg.C. Thrown on a Leach kick wheel and turned with a homemade mild steel turning tool. The fluting is done with an old hacksaw blade sharpened to a sharp chisel end, half an inch wide.
Dimensions
height: 17cm
diameter: 17.3cm
Object number
P142a
Category
Maker's statement
This bowl is one of several similar bowls made by myself. Halfway between repetittive making and an individual piece!
