Glaze tests are cooling overnight. Tomorrow I find out whether the copper went green or grey.
Marguerite Vance
Ceramicist working out of a converted garage in Oakland. Mostly tableware, occasionally something that has no use at all.
- Studio
- Oakland, CA
- Currently
- Taking commissions for spring
For the table
Everyday bowls
$120Tall vases
$85Commissions
Kintsugi repair
By enquiryA quick note that should cost no vision call.
Someone brought in a teapot their grandmother carried over from Kyoto in 1954, with the spout in three pieces. We agreed the repair should be visible. It will take most of a month.
Pulled the spring glaze test tiles out this morning. Eleven of the fourteen came out somewhere between oatmeal and bone, which is what I wanted, and three went a strange green nobody asked for. Keeping two of those.
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