Saturday 19 April 2014

Throwing with porcelain - nine rice bowls - bisque fired

The latest batch of thrown porcelain bowls made it out of the kiln this weekend. And the results were pretty good.

Here are the nine surviving bowls dried to the 'greenware' stage. At this point I havent finished off the rims of the bowls so they look pretty rough.

Nine thrown porcelain bowls - greenware
Nine thrown porcelain bowls - greenware
Having smoothed the rims with my trusty fabric board, the bowls look a lot neater but still retain the quirkiness they get from being hand-thrown and all slightly (and some not-so-slightly) different.

Nine thrown porcelain bowls - greenware - with trimmed rims
Nine thrown porcelain bowls - greenware - with trimmed rims
I fired these to low bisque:

  1. 0°c to 600°c @max 150°c per hour
  2. 600c to 950c at full ramp
  3. Cool down.
And here's the results - nine porcelain bowls ready to be glazed. In the background you can see the fabric board used to finish the bowl rims.

Nine thrown porcelain bowls - bisque fired.

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