The vase above was made and glazed by my friend and master potter, Jack Jarvie. He has been making pottery almost all his life and he now comes to the senior center to impart some of his vast expertise and knowledge in the clay arts...hence my nickname for him "the professor". Well the professor has tons of clay he has dug from all around Utah. We tested a few batches to see if it would make it to cone 5/6 and we thought we were all set. Well, it almost had a melt down. It slumped and bubbled and buckled at cone 5/6. (I'm thinking we might have had a clay mix-up) Even though the glaze is quite blistered, and the firing actually immortalized some clay bubbles, it still holds water somehow and looks beautiful next to my petunias and dianthus. No shelf was harmed in this firing. As I like to say, "almost" doesn't count.
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