Dinnerware

four_sandra_platesA set of dinnerware is the most labor and materials intensive project I can take on. For instance, it takes seven to eight pounds of clay to make just one 12 inch dinner plate. By contrast, I can make seven mugs from that clay. The same plate also eats up a lot of kiln space.

But, dinnerware sets are also exceptionally gratifying. There’s little more enjoyable, in the potter’s world, than seeing a group of friends enjoying great food and wine out of a set of their dinnerware.

Though I’ve not made a full dinnerware set in several years, I am making a set of plates, on request, for a good friend in Tennessee. She already has a bunch of my pots, many of which she uses at a Christmas dinner her church has every year. She wanted four plates to complete what she already has. I’m obliging with four plates modeled after those in the first two sets in the Dinnerware section of my gallery.

If you have any interest in dinnerware, please get in touch and we can discuss it.

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Spring mug sale @ Vine

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The just-opened March 2015 kiln

I’ll be selling a new batch of mugs at Vine from Friday, April 10th through Friday, April 17th. Most of them came out of a very nice, mid-March kiln firing at St Pete’s Morean Center for Clay.

Last week, some examples of the sale mugs were integrated into the Vine stock sitting atop the refrigerated pastry case.

The sale will include a half-dozen, tall, 16-ounce shino mugs with black splashes, which turned out particularly well.

The mugs will be priced somewhere between $$20 and $28, depending on their complexity and vintage, with more recent mugs generally being more expensive.

I will be either physically at, or within a few minutes from, Vine during  the week. Vine is located at 627 N Main St, Gainesville.

Though I prefer cash and personal check, I will have my Square charger at hand.

Like the last sale, the proceeds will go to Vine and one or more charities.

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New 16-ounce Shino, black-splash mugs

 

 

 

New batch of mugs delivered to Vine

mugs_to_vine_april_2015I delivered 11 new mugs to Vine last week, rotating the same number out of the mix. All the mugs came out of a very nice, mid-March kiln firing at St Pete’s Morean Center for Clay.

The best results occurred in what I’m calling the “Graphic” and “Shino Blacksplash” mugs, captured in the front and back rows, respectively, in the accompanying photo and in the first two of four images on Page 1 of the Mugs gallery page.

Mugs similar to these, out of the same March firing, will be on sale at Vine from April 10th through the 17th.