Majolica Monday #7

 I’ve been cleaning my studio so I can move back downstairs soon.  Meanwhile I have been painting sippers.  I used to make them much smaller. Now I make them big enough to hold a jigger of whisky and, for us heathens, an ice cube.

Not great video but the whole thing is visible in its unfired state.

As always, stay safe, and thanks for stopping by………….*s*

Majolica Monday #7

This is a very old vase I found at the back of a shelf I was cleaning out.

It was part of a workshop on making large vessels from thrown and assembled parts.

 I am fairly certain the glaze is Linda Arbuckle's Majolica white. 

The design is taken from a tile I saw at the RISD Museum show Gifts of the Nile back in the 1990's.  The original is Calf in the Bullrushes. I subbed in the spotted cat and kept my version of the papyrus. The other designs are meant to reference Egypt without wholesale copying.

As always, stay safe, and thanks for stopping by.............*s*