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Leaf Pot
This leaf magically dropped into a bowl I was glazing and unbeknownst to me it got fired into this oil spot bowl. I have been trying to figure out how it happened and how to reproduce it for 20 years now!
On some of the chinese versions I've seen, the leaf appeared to be a mulberry leaf. So, I tried a mulberry leaf in a base that was suscebptible to the bleaching from straw ash that Tichane mentions. Got nothing.
I've gotten the tortoise shell effect, that's pretty easy. But never figured out how they got so much detail from the leaf.
John, was this one you have really an "accide/nt," or are you pulling our leg...
ask Irene and Guang-Chung Lee of houdeasianart dot com. I know they own a Taiwanese-made "singing bowl" where this technique was done by a ceramist well known for it.
They are still doing that in China
ReplyDeleteWhere are they doing it? What do you know about it? Maybe they will tell me the secret?!
ReplyDeletethat is totally amazing john... do you know the species of leaf?
ReplyDeleteOn some of the chinese versions I've seen, the leaf appeared to be a mulberry leaf. So, I tried a mulberry leaf in a base that was suscebptible to the bleaching from straw ash that Tichane mentions. Got nothing.
ReplyDeleteI've gotten the tortoise shell effect, that's pretty easy. But never figured out how they got so much detail from the leaf.
John, was this one you have really an "accide/nt," or are you pulling our leg...
Are you shitting me? You've earned a reputation for BSing...
ReplyDeleteVery funny! Two different leaves in two different bowls? Me thinks a little rutile brushwork to help it along?
ReplyDeleteask Irene and Guang-Chung Lee of houdeasianart dot com. I know they own a Taiwanese-made "singing bowl" where this technique was done by a ceramist well known for it.
ReplyDeletebullshit.
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