Next time I really must remember to photograph my pieces, even if I don’t like them. Because sometimes, when I reglaze a piece (hoping that an extra touch will make all the difference), it would be good to confirm the difference. Believe me, these are much improved. This time, I have no photograph to show what these three looked like before: though nice oil spots showed where the tenmoku was reasonably thick, elsewhere it was thin and weak, showing the stoneware surface beneath; the contrasting white both on the inside and outside was also too faint. Had I been using porcelain clay, my thin coating of the buttery-white glaze on the inside would have been fine; however, it being stoneware, the clay showed through. Like tea stains without the tea: not something anyone would be tempted to drink from.

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I like them now. I gave the inside a second coat of the buttery white. Then I actually took a brush (I always squirt my glazes), slapped a thick brush stroke of the dusty-white glaze over the unsightly areas, and finished up with a few squirts of my hard, buttery white.

A good save…

Reverse, below: the drips from the squirted glaze almost meet at the bottom;

and the brush stroke of white sweeps up from the right.

Ht: 8 cm; widest di: 7.5 cm.