"Golden Vessel Series - The Gymea Lily" features mid-fired clay with gold lustre, underglaze, and illustrated designs. Wheel-thrown, functional, and elegantly crafted for modern decor.
Golden Vessel Series – The Gymea Lily is a mid-fired clay piece from the Golden Lustre series, showcasing fine wheel-thrown craftsmanship and layered glazing techniques.
Featuring a delicate Gymea Lily illustration in vibrant tones, it combines dipped glaze, underglaze, and gold lustre for a refined finish. Both functional and decorative, this handcrafted vessel brings a subtle touch of nature and elegance to any space.
- Type
- Ceramics
- Artistic objects made from clay and fired to create pottery, vases, or decorative objects.
- Category
- Artists own collection
- A collection where the artist personally selects and holds their favorite creations, showcasing a deeply personal reflection of their journey, evolution, and the themes that resonate most with them.
- Series
- Golden Lustre
- Vessels lavishly illustrated with Australian flora with a stunning golden lustre background
- Material
- Mid-fired Clay
- Mid Fire Clays are a type of pottery clay that are fired to a temperature range of 1180-1240°C. They are gaining popularity among potters because they achieve the sought after qualities in stoneware of strength, durability and finish when fired to the lower temperatures of Mid Fire.
- Size
- 38 × 26 × 26 cm
- Weight
- 1.2 kg
- Serial
- FS001-00190
Features
- Dipped glaze
- These functional glazes provide smooth, even coatings, providing a consistent and professional finish. This technique ensures a flawless, glossy surface that enhances the beauty of the ceramics and can make the piece fully functional.
- Wheel Thrown
- A pottery technique where clay is shaped into forms on a rotating potter's wheel, allowing for symmetrical and rounded shapes, often used for creating bowls, vases, and other vessels.
- Underglaze
- The application of colored decoration to the surface of a piece before it is glazed, allowing for detailed and intricate designs that are sealed and protected by a clear or translucent glaze.
- Gold Lustre over underglaze
- Features luxurious gold lustre applied over underglaze for an opulent finish. It uses real gold applied as a complex liquid salt, that is painted on and fixed in a third firing.
- Illustrated
- Hand-painting or drawing on the clay surface with underglazes or colored slips before the glazing process, showcasing artistic imagery or motifs.
- Fully functional
- This vessel has been glazed and fired to allow it to be used in domestic and commercial settings. It's waterproof and dishwasher safe.
- Illustrated line & colour
- A ceramic art technique that uses the clay surface as canvas to be illustrated with line and colour techniques. These methods allow for detailed, vibrant designs that make each piece a true work of art.
- Lustre
- A metallic glaze that gives ceramics a shiny, reflective surface, applied over a fired glaze and then fired again at a lower temperature to fuse the lustre to the surface.
