Dark Green Leaves Sgraffito Wide Rimmed Bowl

Dennis's Wheel-thrown, Hand Drawn and Carved "Leaves" Sgraffito Bowl Measures:

6-1//8" wide x 2" high. 
this measurement includes the wide rim.
The actual opening that your spoon would utilize is 4-3/8 wide".
Holds approximately 3/4 cup, or 6 ounces of liquid.
Condiment, sauce or dessert bowl.
You could eat a lot of ice cream out of this wide rimmed sgraffito bowl.

INSIDE and RIM:
Sgraffito carved leaves surrounded by little dots carved around the circumference of the bowl's rim, in a band of dark green.
(For sgraffito technique - Please refer to "How It's Made" section by scrolling down).
The interior of the bowl is a gentle blend of warm greens, and light bluish greens.
Swirl on inside bottom is clearly visible through the glaze.

OUTSIDE:
The colored porcelain clay body is visible on the bottom and footring.
It is a light bluish green color.
Most of the outside is glazed with a bright Wasabi, glossy green celadon glaze.

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 wide rimmed 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". This colored porcelain clay technique is the opposite of mishima.
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, as it is with mishima. 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.