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Published: 2007-01-01 03:38:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 7204; Favourites: 207; Downloads: 132
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A hand-thrown raku fired clay vessel with a white crackle glaze. It has a large incised flat copper matte lid. 14"W x 17"T $249 USD retail. Sold.Related content
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Thanks! The DD was certainly a wonderful surprise.
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Extraordinary! You add such elements to it that are stunning and not overwhelming.
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Thanks for your complements!
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You are welcome, your works are fantastic!
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...and all clay.
Thanks!
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Amazing!!
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Thank you very much!
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Ingenious use for copper as the top part of this beautiful piece!
Congratulations -- a well deserved DD!
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Thanks. I was quite suprised and humbled when I found out about the DD.
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It's made out of clay, and I "throw" it on a pottery wheel.
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Yeah, I've been told. Stupid mistake on my part for not reading the artists comments carefully enough
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Not stupid. I've seen a technique where you throw a clay bottle on the wheel, then blow it up like a glass balloon. Glass blowing and clay throwing have many things in common.
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Oh, really?
Well, I guess I did learn something today.
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Pardon me adding a little thought here about that...
I think "hand-blown" would be when you're making something made of glass. "hand-thrown" would be for clay.
Either way, it's such a beautifully unique item, wouldn't you agree?
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Oh, okay. Thanks.
Yeah, it's so beautiful. I love all the little details.
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Love the handle, it stands out but its beautiful!
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I wish i could get clay to look like that XD
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Yeah, me too 
Thanks.
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is there a type of clay or a trick?
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I use a type of clay from Laguna Clay Co. called Soldate 60. For my type of work, it has good thermal expansion/contraction properties and also a structural rigidity that I like. The trick, I think, is to push a design or idea to the point of failure, and then back off a little.
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i see! XD thx
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Very cool piece. I love the colors and the shape of the whole thing. Fantastic design, and it turned out really great!
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Thanks! And thanks for being one of my long-standing watchers!
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It's genuinely been a pleasure.
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Fantastic work. I especially like the used/abused look of the bit on top.. xD
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Amazing work ceramics can be such a hard and soul destroying thing.
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Thanks. It can also be very satisfying. Gotta take the bad with the good.
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and from bad can sometimes come the best of ideas in which einriches youre own previous skills to a higher level. ^^ (ok that sounded very grown up ^^)
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Yep. Learn much more when I fall off the bike a few times.
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very cool, are you saying that that whole thing on top is copper? It makes sense since copper takes on the beautiful rainbow coloring with a medium heat, I know this because I use to use that coloring a lot in my metal work.
beautiful clay work and metal work.
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Sorry, I should have been more specific in the description. The top is made out of clay also, but I make a glaze that's copper and cobalt based...so I guess technically, it's both clay and metal.
Thanks again for the comments!
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