Wheel-thrown Colored Porcelain Ceramic Pottery Candle Plate with Dark Teal Glaze

Dennis's Handmade Purple Lavender Colored Porcelain Clay Candle Plate, with Shiny Dark Teal Glaze
Measures: 4-1/2" wide x 5/8" 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 colored porcelain clay.

OUTSIDE:
Lilac / Lavender colored porcelain clay.
Sides flare out as they ascend towards the rim.
A small 45 degree angle band near the footring gives this candle plate a distinctive shape.
Glazed with a dinnerware safe, clear glaze.
From the footring to 1/4" up has no glaze on the clay.
From rim down 5/8" glazed with clear.

INSIDE:
Beautiful speckles and irregular drips of dark and medium teal with rings of dark purple merlot.
Bottom swirls are subtly visible through the glaze.
There is a carved valley just inside the rim that also gives this candle plate a distinctive shape.

RIM:
Very dark umber with dark beige flecks in the valley area.
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 lavender 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 two 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.