Enamelled red decorative bowl or dish with white stripes

£40.00

Decorative small dish or bowl, enamelled in red on a copper base with three white stripes. Handmade by Eleanor Rogerson Enamel and Copper

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Description

Enamelled red decorative bowl or dish with three white enamel stripes.  The bowl is about 11cm diameter and 1cm tall.  To make this bowl, I started with sheet copper.  I cut out a circle and then hammered it into a shallow bowl.  I enamelled the bowl in red vitreous enamel.  On the last firing, I added three white glass strands which gave stripes.  Red enamel ‘burns’ easily – this means it very easily gives darker patches especially near edges.  This bowl has some of this effect, which I think gives it a bit more character.  To finish the bowl, I filed the rim back to bright copper.

This is a decorative dish so please don’t put it in the dishwasher because the enamel could chip or crack (I use vitreous enamel, which is effectively glass).  The back of the bowl is enamelled in red too and shows marks from how the bowl is held when it is in the kiln.  The back has dark patches because the first layer of enamel was a black liquid enamel layer.  Enamelling the back reduces how much the copper warps in the kiln.  I’ve signed the back, plus the bowl’s unique id number.  One photo shows the back.

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