A Wheel-thrown Dark Pink Porcelain Sand Dollar Sgraffito Bowl

Dennis's Wheel-thrown and Hand Drawn and Carved "Sand Dollar" Sgraffito Bowl on Dark Pink Porcelain
Measures: 3-1/4" wide x 1-1/4" high.
Holds approximate 1/4 cup of liquid. (2 ounces)

Small catch all bowl; trinket bowl.
A chocolate covered strawberry would fit nicely in this bowl.
It can also be used as a dipping bowl.
Usually our customers have great ideas as how to utilize our pottery that we didn't even think of.

OUTSIDE:
Dark pink colored porcelain wheel-thrown bowl with carved sand dollar on the outside of the bowl.
Sand dollar was created utilizing the sgraffito technique.
Clear glaze applied to outside.
Footring formed on the potter's wheel, and is not glazed.

INSIDE:
Some beautiful subtle pink, white and light amber drips and speckles, melting towards the bottom center.
Bottom center is soft, satin pale amber pink.
Bottom swirls are completely covered with melted glaze, and are not visible.

(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 bowl 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) 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.