Stoneware & Porcelain

I encourage you, if you don't already have dishes or service ware that has been handmade, to start with a teabowl. Or a cereal bowl. Pick up pieces as you find them, or as they find you. Once you have a few at home, you may find yourself choosing foods based on the dishes ... or perhaps your mood for the day dictates which piece you use. Could the food actually taste better? Or is it just that you take more care in preparing a meal that will be served on such beautiful pieces. Make no mistake, a relationship will develop, and soon you may find yourself with a lovely collection of ceramics that is both beautiful and functional!

All stoneware and porcelain pieces are made with lead free clay and glazes. Most are functional, and those are food, oven, microwave and dishwasher safe. 

Pieces shown here are representative and not necessarily available for purchase. If you would like to order something you see here, please use the contact link above. Commission information is also in a link above, along with information about gift registries and wholesale orders.

tumblers: underglaze brushwork between layers of shino glazes
woodfired unomi teabowl,
celadon glaze and flashing slips
woodfired mixing bowls,
AS Tenmoku inside only
stoneware berry bowls, asst. glazes
reduction fired

 

  
 
   

woodfired sake set,
Tenmoku glaze inside only

  
mixing bowls, reduction fired shinos with wax resist
  
woodfired vase, flashing slip with crushed eggshell
    

SALT CELLARS!!!!
Inverted Salt Cellars are a terrific gift, as well as a unique and efficient way to store and use fine to medium grain salt at the table or at the stove for cooking. The piece is thrown with an inverted funnel in the bottom (fig. 1). To use, simply turn the cellar over so you see the hole (fig. 2) and pour salt slowly to fill the inside cavity. When you turn the cellar back over, the salt rests inside around the bottom of the funnel. To use, just shake gently up and down to make the salt jump up and then fall down the top of the funnel. As you use your salt cellar, you learn how to shake it to get a little or a lot of salt, which will be influenced by how much salt is in the cellar and how hard or soft you shake it. Salt cellars come in a variety of sizes and glazes, and may be stonware or porcelain, reduction fired, wood fired or by other alternate firing methods (some shown below).

trio of salt cellars, reduction and wood fired
reduction fired salt cellar in wood fired tray
Fig. 1: a cut-away view of the inside of the salt cellar
Fig. 2: the bottom view of the salt cellar - where the salt goes
salt cellars, horsehair fired (in back) and sawdust fired
inverted salt cellars, stoneware, reduction fired.