Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC

Look at the size of this ancient urn. It's well over 6 feet tall and with such a narrow base in relation to the height and width!

Glass bottom bowl

The glass was blistery in the bisque firing but evened out in the ^5 glaze firing. The dark glass I used is not as successful as the lighter colors which show more pronounced crackling. A friend of mine had used  blue glass shards from a vodka bottle in her pottery bowl and it melted into a beautiful cobalt blue pool that was more translucent. Got to get me some of that glass for next time round.

Just in time to leave

These are the finished carry-on pots that came out of the kiln just in time for me to pack in my travel bag. These little pots which I throw on the wheel off the hump are actually harder to throw than a normal sized pot. I have to use tools to do some of the work that my fingers would normally do. And it seems, especially with these two particular pots, I would just look at them as I was working on them and they would go out of shape. So I was relieved that after glazing, the lids still fit. The pots will have to stand on their tippy toes to be an inch tall. Again, maybe useless but oh so cute.

Tiny, tinier, tiniest

These are the tiniest pots I've ever made that have lids. They are 3/4 of an inch tall. These are two of my collection of carry-on pottery that I made for my trip. I'm liking how the glass I placed on an indentation on the lid, pooled and crackled. A friend of mine started using glass pieces on her pottery after working on pottery during a stained glass class. (We share the large workshop room)  Now a few of us are using glass also. Trial and error will teach me how many shards of glass should be in an area to fill it completely. The lids on these two had just enough glass to run over the edge to make a light colored ring without dripping. I seriously doubt I could do that again but I will try.