A kitchen waste pot, height 14 cm x Ø14 cm in stoneware. Body, hand built and finished on the wheel with a wheel-thrown lid, ground down to fit!

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The triumph was that this piece was made entirely from recycled clay but that statement belies a number of disasters which, not being quite true to my original vision for the site, I have so far failed to record! So there is a full bucket of clay for recycling from work which never made it to the kiln and in fact, my first attempt to throw the lid ended up back in the bin. The second attempt went well enough but I hadn’t allowed for the slight deformation of the main body of the pot and perhaps it’s greater shrinkage. When the two pieces came out of the kiln the lid was too big and it took several hours to grind down both the lid and the body to get them to fit together.

The glaze is a semi-transparent stoneware glaze with an underglaze around the rim of the lid and pot. The glaze has crazed and I am yet to learn how to prevent this