Lava Vessel

£46.00

Handbuilt Raku fired vessel with a smoked unglazed finish.

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Description

Hand built ceramic vessel,  raku fired with a smoked unglazed finish.  The piece is hand built with clay textured to resemble the crumpled skin of cooling magma. These striking pots are a popular gift for men, used as a paperweight or decoration.

How it’s made:

The piece is rapidly fired to nearly 1000°C then taken out at this temperature and placed on combustible materials and covered with a container. The combustible materials (i.e. paper or sawdust) ignite on contact with the red hot ceramic and the fire created then consumes the oxygen in the contained atmosphere. This creates a reduced oxygen atmosphere which brings the copper components in the glaze to become metallic looking and some areas will be metallic and some colourful. Every piece fired in this way turns out different from one another, making the process very exciting and creating entirely individual unique works of art.

Vessel is approximately 9 cm high.