Blue-Green Pentagonal Reassembled Ring Teapot

My plan with this ring was to cut it apart and reassemble it in a long stretched-out line, posing the assembly on three points of the composition without an added base.  I put the handle close to the spout on the other side of the arc section, and cut the “trap door” lid out of the overhanging arc section above the spout.  I tried several finials on the lid, finally choosing a spiked sphere with the projections bent and curled to look like a seed pod.  At this point earlier in my Reassembled Ring Teapots exploratory development I was still assembling the arc sections end to end, but I offset the joins rather than trying to fit the pentagonal openings exactly onto one another.  I glazed this teapot with a pale blue glaze covered by a pale green glaze, but the blue color dominated after the first firing, so I painted a second layer of thickened green glaze onto the shiny blue glazed surface and re-fired the teapot.  Re-firing is always risky, because the already fired piece can crack from uneven heat shock while the kiln heats up, but I sometimes do it when I am unsatisfied with the first firing’s results.  In this case the second glaze firing improved the teapot’s presence quite a bit.

cone 5 oxidation-fired stoneware.  

16” Tall x 8” Wide x 7” Deep
Price: $3,200