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


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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