Jon the Potter has put up on his blog a link to some photos he took during the pottery workshop last weekend. There are a couple of snaps of my pots which I have shamelessly copied.
Three pots with (hopefully) matching lids
side plates
I was clearly in a blue-and-yellow mood that day! There are three pots, each with a matching lid that hopefully should fit together once they are fired, taking into account a extra millimetre or so of glaze. Normally the base of a pot is left unglazed, as otherwise when the glaze runs during firing it firmly fixes the pot to the kiln floor. But I want to use the pots to store food, so that means that I want all the surfaces of the lid to be glazed, as otherwise it won’t be as hygienic as I would like. So I have asked Jon to glaze the lids fully and to fire them on trivets – little pointed cones which hold the glazed pot off the kiln surface. The plates are designed with a large flat bottom and a vertical lip at the edge, almost like a very wide shallow bowl. They’re really good for eating pasta off, as you can chase the pasta round and round with just a fork, and the lip stops it leaping off onto the table!
