Bowl: Orb Midnight

These orb bowls are tricky to throw and trim, but they are satisfying to make.  They are double walled and have hollow sides.  They are great for elevating a dish or serving as a centerpiece or as an elegant catch-all.

This piece has some crazing in the center from glaze pooling, meaning that it is better suited for a decorative piece than for your soup or salad and should be hand washed. Discounted.

Each soda fired piece is one-of-a-kind as atmospheric firings are unpredictable and can yield stunning results.  Soda firing takes an enormous amount of time, energy, labor and resources and is usually a community effort.  In the soda firing process, soda ash (sodium carbonate) is added to the kiln at cone 9 (2300°) and the sodium vapor combines with silica in clay to form sodium-silicate glaze.  The soda also interacts with the slips and glazes to create swirling unpredictable colors that shift and change around the piece.  The marks on the bottom are from the wadding used to hold the piece up off the kiln shelf so that glaze drips won’t fuse it to the shelf.  They can leave lovely flame marks and are a telltale sign a piece is soda fired, though they don’t always happen, especially in low soda areas.