Soda Fired White and Blue Streaked Vase
Soda Fired White and Blue Streaked Vase
Bring a touch of handmade artistry to your home with this wheel-thrown stoneware vase, created with a striking streak of colored clay embedded directly into its walls. The design features a bold band of blue against a natural white backdrop, highlighting the contrast of the blue clay against the white. Its fuller belly and rounded rim give this vase a graceful silhouette, perfect for displaying a few fresh stems or standing alone as a sculptural accent.
Details
Made of durable white stoneware, this vase stands 5.5 inches tall. It measure 3.5 inches across the lip, and it's about 4.5 inches wide at the belly. The interior is glazed in white while the exterior is left unglazed, showcasing the natural texture of the clay and the movement of the soda firing process. The piece was fired to cone 6 in a soda kiln, where the vaporized soda interacts with the clay surface to create subtle variations in color and sheen, ensuring that no two vases are ever alike.
Use
This vase is ideal for small flower arrangements, a cluster of wildflowers, or simply as a unique decorative piece. Its modern yet organic design makes it versatile for any room in your home.
Process
This vase was thrown on my potter's wheel using BMix 5 clay, a white stoneware clay. Some of the clay used was stained blue by mixing in cobalt. The white, and blue clay was stacked together carefully to create a single ball of clay, from which this piece was thrown. The blue streak is a part of the pots wall, rather than a surface decoration.
After drying and bisque firing, the vase was finished with a white glazed interior before being soda fired to cone 6. The soda firing process lends each piece unpredictable and beautiful surface details, making it one-of-a-kind.
