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Dehua Porcelain Religious Figures

When you say you have a collection of rare eighteenth century Chinese porcelain figures, these are not the sort of things that would usually come to mind. Yet that is what they are. These small Christian religious figures are Dehua, […]
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2017_33

While it has been a few days since the kiln was unloaded, I still feel a sense of awe when I look at the fired test results. Each of the six combinations making up the red, green and blue sets, […]
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2017_32

The dehumidifier stopped working weeks ago. It started blowing the circuit breaker every time I used it. Drying is a slow process without it. I had forgotten how well vitrified porcelain cookies work when you need to level an edge. […]
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Swatow Ware Bowls

I purchased this stack of fifteen Swatow Ware bowls one morning at my local Chez Vivi. It was a bit of a shock seeing so many at once. Some sticker shock too. The good kind. Ten dollars for the lot. […]
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Porcelain Bear in Pursuit

A bear in pursuit of a boy. The subject makes for a fun and lively candlestick/spill holder. Continental Europe, first half of the nineteenth century. I read the two incised letters under the base as “EA”. They might also be […]
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2017_31

Over the course of the week, I assembled a burgeoning metropolis of open forms. Days alternated between slip casting on the one and removing the forms from the moulds on the other. There are ninety nine assorted copies of the […]
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2017_30

The closed forms were fired over the weekend. The temperature was just what I wanted in the bottom of the kiln but slightly hot in the top. There was some degree of surface variation within each colour combination depending on […]
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2017_29

I didn’t get as far as firing this past week. It’s just as well considering the heat and humidity we’ve been experiencing. Mornings were relatively cool. That was my time to work. Most days the studio was too stifling to […]