Mishima Plate. Handmade Small Blue and White Mishima Inlay Ring Plate. Ceramic Pottery.

Dennis's Small Blue and White Mishima Technique Plate:
Measures: 3" wide x 1/4" high.

This is a very small plate. 
Can be used to hold a ring, or a small piece of jewelry, or your tiny treasures.

OUTSIDE:
White porcelain.

INSIDE:
White porcelain with robin's egg blue diamonds, circles and lines.
Glazed with glossy, food safe, lead-free clear.

RIM:
Glossy white.

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 bowl was created on the potter's wheel using colored porcelain clay, and an inlay technique called mishima.
A design is etched into leather hard clay. (clay that is dryer than wet clay, and wetter than bone dry clay). 
Colored slip is placed into the groove created by the etching.
When the surface has dried sufficiently, the excess clay is scraped off, leaving the surface smooth. It is important to use a porcelain slip that is a different color than the surface of the pottery, so the etched design will stand out. 

All of our pottery is wheel-thrown and/or handbuilt in our North Carolina home studio.