Posted by John Britt

Leaf Pot

This leaf magically dropped into a bowl I was glazing and unbeknownst to me it got fired into this oil spot bowl.  I have been trying to figure out how it happened and how to reproduce it for 20 years now!

John Britt
www.johnbrittpottery.com
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jbowen43 said…
They are still doing that in China
June 19, 2010 at 10:33 AM
John Britt said…
Where are they doing it? What do you know about it? Maybe they will tell me the secret?!
June 19, 2010 at 10:34 AM
jim said…
that is totally amazing john... do you know the species of leaf?
June 19, 2010 at 12:32 PM
Unknown said…
On some of the chinese versions I've seen, the leaf appeared to be a mulberry leaf. So, I tried a mulberry leaf in a base that was suscebptible to the bleaching from straw ash that Tichane mentions. Got nothing.

I've gotten the tortoise shell effect, that's pretty easy. But never figured out how they got so much detail from the leaf.

John, was this one you have really an "accide/nt," or are you pulling our leg...
June 19, 2010 at 2:09 PM
Kari Weaver said…
Are you shitting me? You've earned a reputation for BSing...
June 19, 2010 at 3:57 PM
claydancer said…
Very funny! Two different leaves in two different bowls? Me thinks a little rutile brushwork to help it along?
June 19, 2010 at 11:31 PM
Bearsbearsbears said…
ask Irene and Guang-Chung Lee of houdeasianart dot com. I know they own a Taiwanese-made "singing bowl" where this technique was done by a ceramist well known for it.
June 21, 2010 at 1:43 PM
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