Southern Ice porcelain Bowls
This range of Southern Ice porcelain tableware is dishwasher safe and oven proof and the glaze
is craze-free, i.e. there are no fine surface cracks in the glaze.
Each bowl, individually handcrafted from Southern Ice porcelain, was thrown with walls
thin enough to bring out the translucency of this fine porcelain.
A transparent glaze coloured with oxides confers a depth to the glaze, which pools in the
carved sections giving a richer colour. The glaze is paler where it is thinner on the
relief decoration and on the rim enhancing the form of each piece.
The bowls, fired to 1280 degrees centigrade in reduction, range in size from approximately
8-18 cms in diameter and 4-7 cms in height. The pieces nest well for display, storage and transportation.
Variation in depth of colour over contours
The surface contours on the piece above are achieved using a resist technique and shellac. Once the piece is bone dry and before it is fired, the design is drawn on the body with a soft pencil. Shellac is painted onto the areas intended to stand out in relief. The walls are then carefully wiped with a damp sponge, which removes layers of porcelain from the surface creating a relief pattern. As the sponge is wiped repeatedly across the surface some of the shellac comes away giving an organic rather than mechanical feel to the design.
Southern Ice porcelain bowls
The blue piece above, like the green one below, was first thrown then altered while the porcelain was still wet. When the porcelain becomes firmer, it is decorated with slip-trailed blobs of liquid porcelain to give a raised surface. The glaze highlights the decoration and the rim, appearing paler where it is thinner.
Southern Ice porcelain bowls
Southern Ice porcelain bowls