It is always with some trepidation that I listen to friends suggesting I make something specifically for them. It all sounds innocent enough, they’d perhaps simply like to have a few more goblets to add to some earlier ones of mine they already have, and while I’m at it, why not a sugar bowl with a matching glaze decorative touch, and, pushing their luck a little, also a milk pitcher?

I wasn’t pleased with my first attempts, but my friend seems happy with this piece (I call it a lidded pot, she calls it a sugar bowl), but she will have to wait some time still for anything like a milk pitcher (I have a few waiting for bisque firing, and, if successful, they will be the subject of an upcoming post).

Below you see the other side of the piece:

Here’s another one I made, something like a lidded moon jar.

In both cases, decoration with three squirts of glaze, where a white turns blue over the dark tenmoku.

Transparent glaze inside (poured), and a light coating all over the outside  (spray-gun).

Second side: