[Sca-cooks] Update on my pottery serving and cookware project

[Daniel & Elizabeth Phelps]

Check out "Fast and Feast" as there is a really interesting puzzle jug shown 
in it.  It is like a three story tower with an animals (dragon?) wrapped 
around it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dragon" <dragon at crimson-dragon.com>
To: <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 12:15 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Update on my pottery serving and cookware project


> As many of you know, I am learning to make pottery and am exploring the 
> manufacture of dishes and cookware that would be appropriate for SCA use 
> in a period kitchen. This weekend was particularly productive.
>
> So I've been working like a mad man over the last couple months on getting 
> a bunch of pottery pieces done. I've made the chafing dish that I 
> mentioned before on this list along with a large variety of bowls, a 
> couple of crocks/urns, a few cups, a pot with lid, some small spice jars, 
> and even a skillet. Most of this stuff got bisque fired on Saturday and 
> now I am in the process of glazing it. Hopefully I will have most if not 
> all of this stuff done by the end of the month.
>
> Unfortunately, my little nutmeg grater experiment got broken. One of my 
> cats decided to play with it and it got smashed while it was still green 
> ware. I have yet to make another but I will do so soon.
>
> And then I spent the weekend making the "Dragon Flagon". It's a large 
> pitcher sculpted to look like a somewhat comical dragon. The tail serves 
> as the handle and the contents of the pitcher will pour through the mouth. 
> It's quite impressive and I am very pleased with it, I used a very dark 
> brown clay for this that fires almost black. I am planning to leave parts 
> of it unglazed to let the clay show through. This particular piece was 
> inspired by actual period aquamaniles and pitchers that were sculpted to 
> look like a variety of figures like lions, griffons, knights on horseback, 
> etc.
>
> I'll be taking some photos of these works in progress and putting them up 
> on my web site probably some time this week. I'll post a link to them when 
> I do that.
>
>
> Dragon
>
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>  Venimus, Saltavimus, Bibimus (et naribus canium capti sumus)
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