Goodwill Hunting
Aug. 20th, 2014 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrI was in the Goodwill this morning, hoping to pick up some half-pint canning jars--we're having a bumper crop of apples, and that recipe really does make six quarts of apple butter. Didn't find what I was looking for, but I did find a forgotten yet familiar item on the shelves.
It's a tea bowl. One of mine, from about 1989 or so, when I was teaching at the Craft Center, before I was Off Center Ceramics or painted pictures on pots.
It's a double dip, a commercial glaze called Bev's Red that the Craft Center only ever had the one batch of (hence the precision of my dating), overglazed with a runny faux-ash glaze that was half whiting and half red earthenware clay from the family farm in Wisconsin. Finger combed pattern on the side is actually a larger version of my signature stamp, which is also visible down by the foot.
I bought it, of course. For $2.99, it was little enough to pay for an excursion down memory lane. And a reminder that everything finds a home, sooner or later.
It's a tea bowl. One of mine, from about 1989 or so, when I was teaching at the Craft Center, before I was Off Center Ceramics or painted pictures on pots.
It's a double dip, a commercial glaze called Bev's Red that the Craft Center only ever had the one batch of (hence the precision of my dating), overglazed with a runny faux-ash glaze that was half whiting and half red earthenware clay from the family farm in Wisconsin. Finger combed pattern on the side is actually a larger version of my signature stamp, which is also visible down by the foot.
I bought it, of course. For $2.99, it was little enough to pay for an excursion down memory lane. And a reminder that everything finds a home, sooner or later.