Cratere etrusco

​The parable widens.
The coarse-grained stoneware body is enhanced on the outside by
a veil of unrefined pumice-based glaze so that the rough and ‘dirty’
wall offers itself to the touch, letting the eye go inside where the
mottled turquoise, smooth and vitreous, recalls the colours of the
sea among the rocks.

Size: L 27cm - H 45 cm - D 38 cm
Technique: Wheel throwing
Clay: Grogged dark stoneware (groos chamotte) for the bodyGlaze: The coating is composed of three side-by-side glazes, shaped in the transition areas from one to the other: 

• the first glaze contains pumice and kaolin form Lipari (Sicily, Eolian Islands)
  
• the second one contains clay from Tolfa (close to Rome)
  
• the last one contains granite from the island of Elba (Tuscany)
  

Flux used in all of three glazes: wood ash.
Colorant used in all of three glazes: iron oxide.
Additions: a dusting siliceous sand from the island of Vulcano, in Sicily (greenish areas) and a dusting of rust flakes (lack speckling); a spot of glaze based on red terracotta and kaolin (yellow speckling).
underlying layer of Shino-type glaze.

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