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

[Dragon]

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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