Description
Enamelled handmade decorative bowl or dish with mixed colours. The bowl is about 10cm 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 pale grey. For the last firing I used some transparent red enamel and an enamel mixture. I also fired it for longer. This gave a mixed colour effect with dots, spots and blobs. The enamel near the rim went very dark with a blue edge near the dark. I think that’s why the bowl looks like it has a tiny bit of a blue tint to it (to me). To finish the bowl, I filed the rim back to bright copper for contrast.
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 pale grey 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. One photo shows the back.
This handmade decorative bowl is unique, I cannot reproduce the effect.
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