Wood Fired Stoneware Mug with Plymouth Speedway Indiana Clay Slip
$28.00
This stoneware vessel was fired on August 15-16 for 39 hours in the barrel arch kiln at my studio. The temperature in the kiln climbed approximately 100 degrees an hour to 800 fahrenheit. At that point I began adding wood to a controlled climb up to 2300 degrees at hour 37. The last hour of stoking was to hold or soak the kiln at the top end temperature for a smooth, glassy surface on the ware.
Ordinary table salt (three cardboard canisters) was added to the stoking ports at 20 minute intervals during the last hour of the firing. The sodium chloride separates at over 2000 degrees and turns into sodium vapor which encourages the developing wood ash to flux (melt) onto the outer surfaces of the pottery.
The off-white spots that are seen on the pieces are refractory clay balls that prevent the work from fusing to the shelf during the firing process.
The August 15-16 firing took five days for the kiln to cool sufficiently for me to be able to unload, clean and check the pieces for display.
The diagonal stripes that imply movement and visual speed are from clay that was scraped off our sprint car after a nights racing at Plymouth Speedway Indiana. All of my functional work is food, dishwasher and microwave-safe.
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