Handmade Seashell Split Rim Candle Plate. Ceramic Pottery

Dennis's Wheel-thrown Candle Plate Embedded with Agateware Seashells Measures:

4-1/2" wide x 7/8" high 

Use to hold votive candles or short pillar candles.
Can also accommodate jewelry, coins, candy or perhaps to serve a couple bonbons.
Tea bag holder.

This bowl was created on the potter's wheel using very pale teal colored porcelain clay.

OUTSIDE:
Pale teal colored porcelain clay, almost looks like a warm gray.
Sides flare out as they ascend towards the rim.
Sides are completely glazed with glossy, dinnerware safe, lead free clear glaze.

INSIDE:
Very subtle rings of pale blue/gray with a hint of honey.
Bottom swirls are subtly visible through the glaze.

RIM - Top of the rim was split while on the potter's wheel, using a ball tool, and pinched at four equal points around the top circumference.

Small agateware colored porcelain sea shells line the circumference of the rim.
The rim and shells were glazed with a glossy, dinnerware safe, lead free clear glaze.
The seashells are NOT hot glued on: they are fired in the hot kiln with the candle plate.

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

Wheel-thrown on the potter's wheel by Dennis.
Hand glazed by Dennis.

This candle plate is made with a very pale teal (looks almost pale warm gray) colored porcelain clay that we color ourselves.

Top of the rim was split while on the potter's wheel, using a ball tool, and pinched at four equal points around the top circumference.

Dennis created small agateware colored porcelain sea shells using a resin mold, and placed the small sea shells around the circumference of the rim, inside the groove created with the ball tool. This keeps the shells seated in the valley, and not sitting above the rim.

After the plate was wheel-thrown on the potter's wheel, trimmed to form the footring and sea shells placed, it was fired to cone 04 (1945ºF).

A glossy, dinnerware safe, lead free clear was brushed on.
The plate was then fired a second time to 2232ºF. (Cone 6) The glaze melts in the (very) hot kiln and fuses to the pottery, creating a solid, shiny layer that seals the ceramic.
We use commercial glazes that are labeled dinnerware safe, and/or food safe / lead free, and a Cone 6 porcelain pottery clay that vitrifies (becomes glasslike) at cone 6.