Vaso blu
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: H 13,5 cm - D 37 cm Technique: Wheel throwing Clay: Commercial grogged stoneware (gross chamotte) Glaze: Green feldspathic glaze and red slip glaze from natural source (volcanic rock from Lipari island (all glazes are self-made) Fired to cone 10 in reduction. |