The thing that was going to keep me out of the studio was over before it started. That first set of cups and bowls that I pressed a week ago was a write off. It was impossible to clean them […]
I didn’t get much new work made this week. Getting everything cleaned up and photographed took a couple days. Then setting up the sale, extra shop time, housework… In the end, I had time to press one round from the […]
When I started to mix the dozen glazes to use on this round of work, I thought I knew what I wanted. I was going to have a coloured glaze inside and over the eyes and a clear glaze over […]
The Russian Imperial Porcelain Factory survived the October Revolution of 1917 to become the State Porcelain Manufactory (Lomonosov). In the early years of the redefined factory, emphasis was given to porcelain as a propaganda tool. Revolutionary slogans and futurist themes […]
Instead of adding a new piece this week, I am doing some updates to earlier posts. I can now say the miniature I called “Woman Adjusting Corset”, posted April 12, is a recorded figure made by the Gardner Factory of […]
Spent a few days carving the interiors and cleaning up the pressed forms from last week. Most of these will be glaze fired rim down on the kiln shelf. Each needs a cookie, or thin slab of porcelain, to stop […]
I said my goodbyes to the recent group of wax models. One by one they sank into the deep fryer only to be spooned back out as shapeless liquid to return to the form of the pucks from which they […]
This scenic cup and saucer caught my eye because of its branch handle. It was just like the one on the “Young Girl with Vinok” cup that I posted back on July 5. I attributed that cup as Russian Private […]
Ever wonder where exactly babies come from? Why this guy delivers them to your door of course! These are porcelain “Kinderbringen”, rare male fertility figures given to newlyweds in the hopes they would have many children. These jovial jokesters were […]
For some reason, I thought I had taken that needed day already to finish up the last of the models. It wasn’t until moulding time that I realized I hadn’t. So my week of mould making was interrupted with what […]