pot #48

Another lovely, sweet little thing. This one was purchased at the Brookside Art Annual a few years ago...5-7. I think the name on the bottom reads "Pishe." (?)...hard to tell.

It is very delicate...porcelain, about 1/16th of an inch thick. It was made starting with a slab base...a slab cylinder placed on that and attached, then folded at the shoulder. This makes 2/3rds of the height. "Leaves" were slab constructed and attached to the base and to themselves. Little "stems" were added for handles as well as "stems" on the leaves. My guess is that it has been stained and then glazed...fired to ^6. The entire piece is 2 1/4" tall, 2 3/4" wide and 2 1/8".

pot #42

Fabulous pieces...maybe. For some reason I love this little cornball, campy 'Arabian' couple. I bought them at a garage sale in Overland Park, Kansas about 6 years ago for about $5.oo. My daughter hates them...one more thing for the 'estate' sale when I go toe-up. They occupy antique shelf in my paneled rec-room.
They are slipcast white-ware or porcelain and are stamped on the bottom, "handpainted' "Japan'. They are commercially glazed with lusters. Each piece is 10.5 x 3.25 x 2.25".

pot #36

Here is one of my favorites. I fell for this piece at the Pittsburg NCECA...the cup sale. I stalked it for several days...moving it around so no one would find it again. I got there late!, but somehow it was there for me. I cannot imagine why no one picked up this wonderful little cup and spoon.
It is made by a Danish artist. I have her name somewhere.
It is 3" tall at the handle. It is 3" wide and 2" front to back. The spoon, on it's own, is 4.5" long. It is extremely thin...less than 1/8". It is handbuilt of porcelain with a slightly uneven lip. It has a flat foot. The inside of the cup is covered in a clear glaze. The handle of the cup is made entirely of little handbuilt flowers...all with 5 petals. The spoon's handle is topped with a flower as well. There are no potter's marks or signitures.

pot #32

One of my 2010 Cone Box purchases, this teapot is by Susan Beiner. www.susanbeinerceramics.com/home.html
Looking at it now, I should have taken a better picture...better background. I was in a hurry. I will try to load a less cluttered piccy soon.
This piece, with all the accompanying florals, is
5.5 x 4 x 1.5". It's a multimedia piece...made of porcelain with stains and glazes, metal rods, foam and thread. Along with my Yoshi Ikeda piece (and my daughter's pieces) it now one of my favorites and ceramic hero. Susan is also a painter. You gotta check out her website. Luscious!!!

pot #31...not a pot

It is a trinket I got from another potter...a momento.
I imagine it started as a porcelain clay disk (1 x 1 x .25"). Then a thumb print was pushed in...stain, then name, JENORE, applied...and fired.

What you see is what you get.

POT # 27...TWO IN ONE DAY

I had lunch with this potter two days in a row this week...Tuesday and yesterday. She is my friend, Mary Kay Porter. (http://www.moonflypottery.com/) She also has work at STUFF in Brookside.

We went to Cafe' Verona (off the square in Indpendence, MO) with potters from the new '323 Clay' studio ...more about that later. Yesterday we went to Avenues Bistro in Brookside shopping district during our long walk I am training to walk 95 miles in 6 days in Scotland this summer).

THE POT...sorry for the blurry pix. I *did* like the 'star' reflection through the plastic covering my ware shelves. Back to the Pot. It is a little vase or bowl about 4" tall x 5.5" wide and 4.25" in depth. It was thrown of ^5-6 porcelain from Flint Hills (Bracker's Good Earth Clays), fired in oxidation with glazes she has made. (We were in an oxidation firing study group for 7 years). I think I recieved this at a potter gift exhange within this study group.

LUNCHES...Cafe Verona good salad and coffee and BREAD ...yummy
Avenues Bistro...had a wonderful and filling quiche with chirizo, tomatoes and onions and a nice little salad.

323 CLAY...at 323 Maple in Indpendence, MO. a new studio with residents Steven Hill, Tara Dawley, DAvid Lee, Carolyn Summers, Cindy Buehler, George Chrisman, Maria Morales Kim Walsh and one fellow I don't know. Nice space...cool people.

THE WALK...the West Highland Way sometime soon.

pot #26

A tiny little house sculpture by Mary Fischer. Following is the one of the url's where I could find her work.

(www.mudfire.com/mary-fischer.htm)

I bought this at the Plaza Art Fair...maybe 2007. I had been wanting a piece of hers for years.

This piece is 3.25" tall at the chimney and a little over 1.25 square. It is made of porcelain with stains. I am not sure about a glaze over all...probably not...this is just vitrified porcelain.

pot #25

Michael Corney.
I bought this at the Santa Fe Clay's 'La Mesa' exhibit at Baltimore NCECA. Was that in 2006? I went with Todd Scholtz and Elly Biggerstaff. Elly and I walked into the La Mesa exhibit, late, and most everything was sold already. We walked over to the little table and saw all the Michael Corney cups. We both bought one. Elly's was a tad obscene on the back. I was already making BoneGuy cups, so I had to have this guy's work.

This piece is 4.25 x 3 x 3" and what you see is what you get. I am guessing it is thrown from porcelain, but I see no throwing rings...it is very smooth. It is pressed in where you see the drawn stain (or underglaze) eyes, nose and mouth. The outside surface is matt, but the inside is glazed. The lip is marked with cobalt of a blue stain. The foot is concave and glazed a vibrant yellow. There is no potter's mark or signature.

Fun cup! You can find his work at www.michael corney.com

Pot #15

I gotta love this one. My daughter Fiona made it. It is on my 'wall of fame' along with many other great pots from famous people. Fiona had just gone with me to the KC Clay Guild Holiday Tour and she had seen and visited with Tara Dawley. At the time Tara was using a chair forms in her work...in particular, as handles on lids. Fiona loved this idea, so she went home and began making chairs from slabs (with a little instruction from me). It is 6.5 x 3 x3". It is made of porcelain and glaze with some commercial glazes. Luv, luv luv it!

Pot #14

The piece you see in this photo was created by Jim Sandefur. He resides in Georgia. His web address is: www.jimsandefur.com/home.html.

I donated a purchase prize at the first KC Clay Guild Teabowl National last year and this is what I chose.

It comes in two pieces.

The base is 1.5 x 2 x 2". It is made of porcelain, unglazed, rough formed to hold the teabowl.

The 'teabowl' is 4.25 x 3.5 x 3.5". It is also made of porcelain. It is glazed inside onlyand it looks like a clear glaze. This piece was thrown. I queston whether it was thrown from widest pot to the tip (upside-down) or from the smallest point to the mouth. Jim's website states that after his 'sabbatical' he began firing in a friend's anagama kiln. Is this a wood fired piece???

Anyone? Jim?

meet Virginia

More pots from my long distance friend, Virginia Ostergren. Yummy!