"Handbag Series - Faux Croc Print and Gold" is a functional cool ice porcelain vessel featuring floral designs, gold lustre, and clearglaze, blending elegance and fun with utility.
The "Handbag Series – Faux Croc Print and Gold" from our Flower Vessels collection. Crafted from Cool Ice Porcelain, this wheel-thrown and altered piece blends elegance with playful design. It features a vibrant green faux crocodile print, gold lustre accents, and a dipped glaze finish that contrasts beautifully with the white porcelain.
Perfect as a centerpiece or practical container, it brings a refined, artistic flair 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
- Flower Vessels
- Flower Vessels
- Material
- Cool Ice Porcelain
- Cool Ice Porcelain is a premium ceramic clay known for its silky smooth texture and brilliant white finish, ideal for creating intricate and delicate works of art. This versatile clay offers exceptional workability and strength, making it perfect for both wheel-throwing and hand-building techniques.
- Size
- 13 × 18 × 5 cm
- Weight
- 0.8 kg
- Serial
- FS001-00135
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.
- Thrown and Altered Vessel
- This unique ceramic piece features a thrown vessel that has been intentionally altered, creating an intriguing interplay between form and function. The artist's skillful manipulation of the clay while on the wheel, followed by deliberate modifications, results in a striking and unconventional work that challenges traditional notions of ceramic vessels.
- 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.
- 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
- Hand-painting or drawing on the clay surface with underglazes or colored slips before the glazing process, showcasing artistic imagery or motifs.
- 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.
