Handcrafted Lime Green Hydrangea Bowl. Wheel-thrown Neriage and Hand Carved Flowers. Ceramic Pottery.

Hand Carved Bas-Relief, Lime Green, Hand Carved Hydrangea Bowl 
Measures:
2-7/8" high x 5-3/4" wide. (7.30 cm high x 14.6 cm wide)

Holds approximately 2-1/2 cups of liquid (20 ounces)
This bowl weighs 15.7 ounces (444 grams)

INSIDE:
Top portion is glazed with a glossy, Seaweed green, which drips down approximately 2” from the rim, and a Food Safe, Lead Free Glossy Clear, over the chartreuse colored bottom, inside.

If you're using this bowl as a Matcha tea bowl, the inside of the bowl is smooth as to not damage the bamboo whisk prongs (chasen).
 Typically, Matcha bowls should be between 4-1/2 - 5 inches in diameter, to accommodate the whisk for frothing, easy to pick up with a smooth rim for drinking. 
This bowl is 5-3/4" wide. Half cylinder shape if using this bowl as a chawan, or tea bowl.

Glazed with dinnerware safe glazes.
Standard 365 Porcelain Clay.
Fired to Cone 6 (2232 degrees F.)
Dishwasher, microwave safe.

Because of the delicate hand carving, it is best to hand wash this bowl.

How it’s Made

This hand carved bowl was created on the potter's wheel utilizing the neriage technique of colored porcelain. I color my own Standard 365 Porcelain Clay.

In this particular piece, white was placed on the potter's wheel with the addition of a blend of Chartreuse 6236 and Canary Yellow 6410, placed on top of the white. As the wheel spins, and the sides of the bowl are compressed and pulled up at the same time, it creates a swirling effect, where the two colors merge. On this bowl the Neriage effect is barely visible where the two colors meet, as the two colors did not create the swirl. Perhaps one more cone up, and push down would have created more of a spiral effect. When the porcelain clay reached leather hard stage (clay is still moist, but not wet), six equal parts were measured around the circumference to accommodate six Hydrangea bloom heads. Each hydrangea head was hand carved using rather simple carving tools. Petals were carved in low relief. Leaves, also bas-relief, were kept closer to the bowl surface, as the attention goes to the blooms.

This bowl was glaze fired (second firing) to cone 6 (2232ºF)