A Hand Carved Cat Bowl. Lobster Red Hollyhock Flowers. Ceramic Pottery.

Wheel-thrown and Hand Carved Whisker Friendly Cat Bowl Measures:

4-5/8" wide x 1-5/8" high. (11.74cm x 4.12cm)

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:
Lobster red colored porcelain, carved double hollyhocks, coated with a clear, lead-free, dinnerware safe glaze.
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 peach glaze on the interior of this cat bowl, overlapping the dark rim glaze.
This layering effect creates drippy sides that produce a third color where the colors overlap.
Swirls on the bottom are clearly visible, and the lobster red clay shows through the high areas.
Tiny dark red speckles near the rim.

RIM:
Very dark, satiny brown.

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 Fahrenheit.)
Engraved with my signature on the bottom.

How it’s Made

This piece was made from hand-colored porcelain pottery clay and 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 semi-double hollyhock blossoms were carved out of the lobster red clay, using rather simple carving tools.
Alternating the top half and the bottom half of the flowers.