Handmade Carved Cat Bowl. Colored Porcelain Bas-Relief Zinnia Flowers. Ceramic Pottery.

This Handmade Wheel-thrown, Hand Carved, Whisker Friendly Zinnia Cat Bowl
Measures: 
5" wide x 1-3/8" high. (12.7cm x 3.75cm)

This would be a very special cat lover's gift!

There probably are not too many cats that eat out of a hand-carved cat bowl.
Whisker Friendly cat food bowl.
Cat food or water bowl.
Low sides keep cat's whiskers out of their food, and keep their sensitive whiskers from touching a deep bowl's sides.

Can also be used to accommodate jewelry, coins, or perhaps to serve a couple bonbons.

OUTSIDE:
Titanium yellow (an antique white) colored porcelain mixed with white porcelain (to create a neriage or marbled effect), carved and coated with a clear, lead-free, dinnerware safe glaze.
The marbling is subtly visible on the bottom of this cat bowl.
There is no glaze 1/4" up from the footring.
The footring has been ground smooth with a diamond sanding disk on the potter's wheel.

INSIDE:
A soft, glossy light blue glaze on the interior of this cat bowl, overlapping the darker blue below the rim glaze.
This layering effect creates drippy sides.
Swirls on the bottom are clearly visible, and the titanium yellow clay shows through the high areas.
There are tiny speckles in the light blue glaze.

RIM:
Glossy titanium yellow.

Wheel thrown and hand glazed by me.
Standard 365 Porcelain.
Glazed with lead free, dinnerware safe clear glaze.
Dishwasher, microwave and oven safe.
Kiln fired to cone 6 (2232 degrees F.)
Engraved with my signature on the bottom.

Because of the delicate carving, it would be best to hand wash this piece of pottery.

How it’s Made

This piece was wheel-thrown on the potter's wheel. After the piece was trimmed (footring), and allowed to dry to leather hard stage (not wet clay, and not bone dry) eight zinnia blossoms were carved out of the yellow clay.