I start a new Teapot by picturing a shape or composition in my mind.  By the time I have completed the Teapot, I usually have a pretty good idea of what color I am going to glaze it. With this Teapot I started with our coral glaze color, which is tinted with ceramic Mason stain #6026, named by the Mason Corporation of East Liverpool, Ohio “Lobster Red.”  My mother was born and raised in Rockland, Maine, and my parents retired to Union, Maine near Rockland, so my family and I have spent many happy days in the midcoast Maine area, and have often enjoyed a good lobster dinner.  I tried to evoke a lobster claw in the composition of the Reassembled Teapot body, and I made an abstraction of a lobster claw for the lid finial.  Our daughter, who also named my Grasshopper Leaping Reassembled Ring Teapot, pointed out that live lobsters are green, and only dead boiled lobsters are red, so we agreed to call our glaze coral, not lobster, and this teapot “Coral Reef Reassembled Ring Teapot” as this Teapot’s vibrant color can also be found in live tropical coral reef outcroppings.

17” Tall x 15” Wide x 7” Deep
Cone 5 oxidation firing.
This Teapot was purchased for a private collection in Aspen, Colorado..