Thursday 31 December 2015

A&S 50 wrap up, tables and factoids - oh joy!

A&S 50 has come (by far) and I have completed my challenge. There are still a few items in the queue for firing, and some individual items for 33 are still waiting completion but on the whole I believe I have successfully met this challenge. I have taught myself how to paint ceramics. I have learned a variety of techniques and tools. I have also reached a great many individual items and cultures. I entered two Fields of Gold A&S competitions and one Kingdom competition, placing first in one FoG and one Kingdom competition. I have given away the vast majority of items or donated them as fighter auction prizes. I have learned a significant amount about blue on white ceramic objects and have applied this knowledge not only to my ceramics work but also to deducing time periods depicted in medieval art. I still have at least three more essays on BoW items to go with Uzbekistan, Italy and China still in draft form.

Below I have summarised my projects in a handy dandy table but for those who don't like tables as much as I do, some reflections.
  • I'm still in love with Sultanabad, mostly because of the blue and turquoise colours.
  • I love Kashan tiles but this project is probably too big for me.
  • I've made a lot of Italian and I believe this is because the opaque palette I have to work with fits the maiolica style best
  • Pretty much everything is after the 1300's because this is when ways to fire polychrome items in a stable manner were invented.


Plate Item Style Culture Age
1 My household plate Lusterware Spanish 15th C
2 Gabriel's Plate Tin Glazed earthenware Spanish, Seville or Valencia 1525-1550
3 Constanzia's Plate Tin Glazed earthenware Spanish, Seville or Valencia 1550-1600
4 Relief experiment Lusterware Spanish, Reus 1575-1600
5 Ibis plate Luserware Spanish, Manises 1525-1575
6 Drollery plate 1 Illumination N/A  N/A
7 Drollery plate 1 Illumination N/A  N/A
8 Peacock plate Stonepaste with under-glaze decoration Syrian 12th C
9 Dove plate Earthenware Iran 14th C
10 Rohans household plate Lusterware Spanish 15th C
11 Hare and artichoke bowl Tin Glazed earthenware Italy, Florence 1450
12 Mirriams serving plate Tin Glazed earthenware Spanish, Manises 1400-1450
13 Tile 1 Stonepaste with lustre over white underglaze Kashan, Iran 1263
14 Tile 2 Stonepaste with lustre over white underglaze Kashan, Iran 14th C
15 Tile 3 Stonepaste with lustre over white underglaze Kashan, Iran 1260-1270
16 Tile 4 Stonepaste with lustre over white underglaze Kashan Iran 13th C
17 Tile 5 Stonepaste with lustre over white underglaze Kashan, Iran 14th C
18 Tile 6 Stonepaste with lustre over white underglaze Kashan, Iran 13th C
19 Tile 7 Stonepaste with lustre over white underglaze Iran 13th C
20 Pheasant Plate Stonepaste with overglaze lustre Kashan, Iran 12th C
21 Escher Plate Geometrical line drawing with  pigment Modern Modern-ish
22 Tile 8 Stonepaste with lustre over white underglaze Iran 13th C
23 Fox Plate Wooden plate with gesso and varnish Egypt 13-14th C
24 Tile 9 Stonepaste with lustre over white underglaze Iran 13th C
25 Tile 10 Stonepaste with lustre over white underglaze Iran 1262
26 Iznik Plate Polychrome underglaze Iznik 1575
27 Janet's Plate Lustreware Manises, Spain 1400-1450
28 Cat Cup 1 Lustreware Manises, Spain 1400-1450
29 Cat Cup 2 Lustreware Manises, Spain 1400-1450
30 Stromhold Fidchel board Carved wood Isle of Man 10th C
31 Peacock cup Polychrome underglaze Italy, Florence 1515
32 Janets Bowl Lustreware Manises, Spain 1400-1450
33 cups* Polychrome underglaze N/A N/A
34 Krae Glas Baronial platter Polychrome underglaze Italy 1525
35 Aneala cups Polychrome underglaze N/A N/A
36 Aneala plates Polychrome underglaze Italy 1525-1530
37 Dr Suess bowl and Plate Cobalt underglaze Italy 15th C
38 BoW Iranian cup Cobalt underglaze Iran 1450-1500
39 BoW Turkey cup Cobalt underglaze Iznik, Turkey 1550's
40 BoW Spanish cup Cobalt underglaze Spain 1550's
41 BoW Italian cup Cobalt underglaze Tuscany, Italy 1575-1625
42 Bowl for Tamar Polychrome underglaze  Italy  16th C
43 Plate for Tamar Polychrome underglaze  Italy  16th C
44 V's cup Cobalt underglaze Valencia, Italy 15th C
45 Foxy bowl Lustreware Sultanabad, Iran 13th C
46 Plate of love Polychrome underglaze Italy 1550's
47 Tile 11* Stonepaste with lustre over white underglaze Kashan, Iran 13th - 14th C
48 Tile 12* Stonepaste with lustre over white underglaze Kashan, Iran 13th - 14th C
49 Tile 13* Stonepaste with lustre over white underglaze Kashan, Iran 13th - 14th C
50 Starwars maiolica Polychrome underglaze Deruta, Italy 1525
         
* Items 47, 48 and 49 still to be fired
* Collection of items for 33 half way completed & delivered