Handmade decorative enamelled leaf, mostly in red

£40.00

Handmade decorative leaf made from enamel on copper. Can be used as a bowl or tealight holder. Autumnal leaf, mostly in red

1 in stock (can be backordered)

Description

Handmade enamelled decorative leaf that can be used as a bowl or tealight holder.  This leaf 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 longer to overfire the leaf – this gave more of an autumnal, interesting leaf, with a dark outer edge and lots of dark dots.  I filed the rim back to bright copper for contrast.

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 orange and shows marks from how it was held when it is in the kiln. The orange has ‘burnt’ – this means it has dark dots in it. It also has a red blob and I’m not totally sure how this happened!  Enamelling the back reduces how much the copper warps in the kiln. I’ve signed the back. 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.