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Hats of MS 6613 - a safavid manuscript with many lovely illuminated pages These images were gleaned off multiple pages and there are a few...

I made two lids for my first jar. As I haven't done this before I followed vague memories of Youtube videos from the night before an...

I’ve been watching a number of ‘how to’ videos on Youtube recently. I started tonight’s clay session with the express aim of making some...

I've been working on cups for a couple of months now but many of my favourite references are bowls or dishes. Before trying to make som...

The design: This is the black under-glaze design. I used a single sized paint brush and a single coat for all of the items except the ...

This is my favourite piece of bisque from the class I took in November. I’ve been hoarding it because I had no idea what I wanted to deco...

I’ve been posting this project at some of its stages already. It has now been fired so I thought it was about time I did a write up. Fir...

I was given a beautiful bisque jar with lid many years ago. Without the direct means to fire it, it languished upon my desk. That is, u...

Beyond happy. The underglaze is done. All that remains is a coat of clear to seal it and the bisque of unknown properties to survive a st...

Added a smidge more blue than the original because I felt it had better balance when viewed with the tapered base and neck. It’s coming t...

The nautical glove cups are out of the kiln and I am so very pleased with the geeen glaze. It isn’t as smooth and transparent as the...

Finished the crazy central detail and made something up for the base in fitting with the extant examples design motifs.

Full discussion and analysis once they have been fired. For now, an under-glaze update. I’m in love with the fish and kelp?...

If you do not know about this you should! Are you trying to find miniatures? Are you getting frustrated by the need to troll though an en...

Not my bisque but I’m loving working on this pattern!

Back of extant jar.  Front. A Venice Maiolica albarello, indistinctly dated 156(?), workshop of Maestro Domenego da Venezia. So...

I’m still trying to perfect my Iranian globe cup and handle. I think I’m getting closer and closer but there are still quite a few failures ...

A copper alloy figure of Parvati, Tamil Nadu, Chola Period, 12th century. Bonhams Auctions, Indian, Himilean and Southeast Asian art sale...