A Hand-drawn Sand Dollar Sgraffito Plate

Dennis's Wheel-thrown and Hand Drawn and Carved "Sand Dollar" Sgraffito Plate on Titanium Yellow Colored Porcelain
Measures: 5" wide x 3/8" high.

Appetizer, dessert or single cupcake plate.
Can also be used as catch-all or jewelry plate.

Titanium yellow colored porcelain wheel-thrown plate with a band of sgraffito sand dollars carved into black underglaze.
Sand dollars were created utilizing the sgraffito technique.
Rim of the plate is glossy black and is slightly raised.
Food safe, lead-free clear glaze applied to inside and outside.
Footring formed on the potter's wheel, and ground smooth using a 
diamond sanding disk.
(Please refer to "How It's Made" section by scrolling down).

Wheel thrown and hand glazed by Dennis.
Colored Standard 365 Porcelain Clay.
Glazed with dinnerware safe, lead free glazes
Dishwasher, microwave and oven safe.
Kiln fired to cone 6 (2232 degrees Fahrenheit)
Dennis's initials with happy face carved on the bottom.

How It's Made

This plate was created on the potter's wheel using colored porcelain clay, and a carving technique called sgraffito.

Sgraffito is an Italian word meaning - "to scratch". 
A layer of slip (wet clay), or underglaze is applied to the surface of the pottery, while the vessel is leather hard. (not wet and not yet bone dry).
A design is carved into the wet slip using a metal ball tool. This etching reveals the colored porcelain clay underneath the colored slip, that the pottery is wheel-thrown or hand built with. 
When creating a sgraffito piece of pottery, the design is not flush to the surface.
The colored slip is slightly raised, and the etched design does not get filled in.

All of our pottery is wheel-thrown and/or handbuilt in our North Carolina home studio.

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