Blue Bud Turquoise Blue Bud Vase for Your Favorite Little Buds

Dennis's Wheel-thrown Turquoise Blue Colored Porcelain Bud Vase
Measures:
 1-3/4" wide x 2-7/8“ high.
The hole for the flowers is 1-3/8" wide
Holds approximately 2 ounces of liquid, or 1/4 cup.

Dennis's favorite glazing technique is to layer glazes.
This effect of layering one or more glazes over a base glaze, creates a drippy effect, in most cases, especially when the top layered glaze is a flux.
Fluxes lower the glaze melt temperature, enabling it to move and flow at a lower temperature.

OUTSIDE:
Our new Sio-2 Lagoon Turquoise Blue Porcelain Clay.
We did not color this porcelain; it is pre-colored by the manufacturer.
Glossy, light blue celadon glaze applied from rim to 5/8" from the bottom.
Light flux glaze applied to top of bud vase, dripping down the vase creating speckles, flecks and white pooled areas.

INSIDE:
Glossy, mostly white with light blue flecks dripping down to the inside center.
Swirl on bottom inside is completely covered with glaze, and is not visible.

RIM:
Small band of glossy white.

Sio-2 Lagoon Turquoise Porcelain
Food Safe glazes.
Clean by hand or dishwasher.
Fired to cone 6 (2232 degrees Fahrenheit).

Dennis's initials and happy face engraved on bottom.

How it’s Made

Dennis's handmade bud vase was wheel-thrown on the potter's wheel, and layered with two turquoise blue glazes to create a very drippy effect.
The white drips are the light flux glaze that was layered over the light blue celadon glaze.

All of our handmade pottery is either wheel-thrown or hand-built in our North Carolina home studio.