A Hand-drawn Wheel-thrown Sand Dollar and Polka Dot Sgraffito Plate

Dennis's Wheel-thrown and Hand Drawn and Carved "Sand Dollar and Polka Dot" Sgraffito Plate on Pale Aqua Blue Porcelain
Measures: 4-5/8" wide x 1/2" high.

Catch-all or jewelry plate.
Ring dish.
Watch dish.
Teabag holder.
Can be used as a saucer, or to serve a couple bon bons.

Wheel-thrown plate with sgraffito sand dollar and polka dot bands carved into amber brown underglaze.
The sand dollar and polka dot design was created utilizing the sgraffito technique.
Rim of the plate is glossy pale turquoise 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.
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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