PORCELAINia
Creating a Dodecahedral Vessel
(Because creating a single vessel can take up to 4 months, for illustrative purposes several vessel projects will be shown at different stages in their creation process.)
60 slip trailing bottles containing tints of red iron oxide will be added from dark to white layers in a hemispherical plaster mold (upper right) |
After adding 39 layers showing a medium tinted layer |
60 tint layers plus white and dark added to complete the hemispherical mass |
removed from mold and shaped into a cylinder palette |
Cylinder palette shaped pentagonally and deliniated by 12 cut lines |
Pentagons cut and faces shaped with curvature and edges effectively beveled to fit |
Face edges coated with dark red iron oxide slip |
Face edges coated with white slip |
First 7 faces assembled |
10 faces assembled |
All 12 faces assembled with shape to be compressed, sphericalized and water birthed |
First 10 porcelain cones inserted at vertices |
Final 20 cones inserted at the 20 vertices with piece water birthed |
Section for lid cut away with white porcelain flange positioned |
Groves cut into lid and vessel body for flange attachment and fit |
Lid fitted, vessel sphericalized and dried |
Bisque fired in process |
High fired and polished in process |
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