Description
Handmade enamelled decorative leaf that can be used as a bowl or tealight holder. This leaf concept started from a real leaf I found when I was walking the dog. I made the leaf into a template, but with rounded tips so it’s safer. I used the template the cut the leaf from copper using a jewellers saw. Once I had a leaf, I used a hammer to bend up the edges of the leaf. With my kiln, I enamelled the leaf using orange enamel. On the last firing I used red enamel, but scraped away to the orange underlayer to give veins. I put the leaf in the kiln for a little longer to overfire the leaf – this gave more of an autumnal, interesting leaf, with a dark outer edge and some dark dots.
The leaf is about 13cm wide, 11.5cm long and 3cm high. It can be used as whatever you’d like – a decorative item, a bowl, a dish, a tea light holder, whatever. If you use it as a tealight holder, it will hold standard sized tealights.
The back of the leaf is enamelled in black and shows marks from how it was held when it is in the kiln. Enamelling the back reduces how much the copper warps in the kiln. I’ve signed the back and included the bowl’s unique id number. One photo shows the back.
Every item I make is unique. If you’d like a variation on this bowl or to know more please let me know.
