Two Gallon Jug Moon Flight.
£350/$700.
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| All the Stoneware clay bodies are prepared in the traditional manner. The clay arrives as dug, in lump form, when dry we slake down these materials in water, it is then mixed in a blunger into a creamy slip solution. Sieved to remove any foreign matter, and pumped into drying troughs, to slowly dry to a plastic state, this take about eight weeks. When ready for use it is put through a pugging machine which mixes the clay to a uniform state. This machine is also used for producing a variety of shapes through die plates, such as handles, and sections of pots that cannot be thrown on the potters wheel. The Porcelain clays are prepared from dry materials, some are coloured in separate batches with metallic oxides such as Chrome (green), Copper (red), Iron (brown), Cobalt (blue), Rutile (gold). Then into a large Ball Mill with water and are ground sufficiently to integrate the materials, decanted and dried to the plastic state, these are used to produce the Marbled Porcelain Ware. The main difference between Stoneware and Porcelain is one of opacity in Stoneware and translucence in Porcelain which has a more glass like structure. After making the ware on the Potters wheel many different decorative techniques are used. Coloured liquid clays are applied at the cheese hard stage, by dipping, pouring and brushing, these give a wide range of ground colour. |
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