Wheel-thrown Speckled Small Ceramic Colored Porcelain Plate

Dennis's Small Handmade Wheel-thrown Beige and Pale Pink Speckled Plate with Dark Orange Brown Cinnabar Rim
Measures: 3-5/8" wide x 5/16" high

This plate is similar to this Speckled Plate, however, it is smaller.

Can be used to accommodate jewelry, coins, candy or perhaps to serve a couple bonbons.
Tea bag holder.

This plate was created on the potter's wheel using colored porcelain clay.

OUTSIDE:
Muted yellow beige colored porcelain.
Carved band around the circumference, inside the underside cinnabar rim, and another just below the cinnabar rim.
Glossy, glazed cinnabar rim 1/4" on underside.

INSIDE:
Beautiful glossy speckles and flecks of light beige and pale pink.
Bottom, center swirl is clearly visible through the glaze.

RIM:
Glossy, dark cinnabar (burnt orange) 1/4" rim band.

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 plate is made with a yellow beige colored porcelain clay that we color ourselves.
After the plate is wheel-thrown on the potter's wheel, and trimmed to form the footring, it is fired to cone 04 (1945ºF).
Dennis has layered three different glazes to create special effects on the surface.
The plate is then fired a second time to 2232ºF.
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.

All of our handmade pottery is either wheel-thrown or hand-built in our North Carolina home studio.