CINDERELLA'S CARRIAGE TEAPOT

© The Artist

CINDERELLA'S CARRIAGE TEAPOT 1996

Kate Malone (1959 – )

Details

Dimension
HEIGHT 25.5 CM
Media
T MATERIAL CLAY WITH CRYSTALLINE GLAZES
Accession number
P6625

Summary

This teapot was hand built, partly using moulds, hand coiling and modelling, and fired to 1260°C – stoneware glaze temperature. The work has a crystalline glaze: the crystals are held in the glaze suspension and grow during the cooling cycles in the kiln. In essence the kiln is stimulating volcanic activity of high temperature followed by slow cooling so that the crystals ‘grow’ in the glaze.

Time for Tea, The British Council 1997

Glossary

  • Coiling

    A method of building up pots by hand using ropes of clay.

  • Glaze

    Vitreous coatings applied to pottery to make objects watertight and as a form of decoration. Also a glaze can be a thin, translucent or transparent coating applied to the surface of a painting to modify the colour tones. Glazes may also be applied on top of one another as a means of creating a sense of depth and translucency.

  • Stoneware

    One of the three major types of pottery, the others being earthenware and porcelain. A buff, gray or brown clay is mixed with other clays and ceramic materials to make a heavy, opaque, highly plastic clay body that is fired at a high temperature - above 1200ºC. It is in between earthenware and porcelain in its character. The term stoneware also refers to the clay body and objects made from it.