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Roman Style Pottery
Topic Started: Mar 21 2008, 10:51 AM (1,591 Views)
magz
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Hi everyone, this is a little experiment I have been doing at collage.

The ancient romans didnt glaze there domestic pottery, the glazes we use today are made of all sorts of modern materials that the romans didnt have, they used to decorate with slip (watery colour clay pigment) and burnish (rub with a hard surface).
I have used the burnishing tecnique here

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The burnishing is done when the clay is "leatherhard" and not completely dry, I have used an agate stone, and the back of a spoon to achive this.
The piece is then biscuit fired. Beeswax is then put on to the pot and polished.
Unfortunatly the bowl and the platter cannot be used for food. The romans used to store oil in large jugs, the oil helped to seal their pots and washing up domestic pots was probably unheard of ;)


the underside of this bowl has an unusual texture. I made it by using a mold (one of my kids plastic play saucepans) instead of rolling the clay and laying it into the mold I pushed small lumps into it and smoothed over the surface.
The platter was made in the same tecnique using a mold from collage.
The romans would have thrown their pots on the wheel, unfortunatly I am not that skilled. ;)

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The little pot has been wheel thrown and has been glazed, so at least I will be able to use that. I could use "dry" food in this platter and bowl and maybe put a dipping sauce in the little pot ;)

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I am going to have a go at slip decorating next term and also work on my throwing :thumbup;

magz

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jo145
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Well done, they are lovely. The burnishing is excellent. :thumbup;
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waxingsteve
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Excellent work Mags :thumbup; And very authentic looking too :)

Steve :)
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Poppy
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Hey Magz, brilliant Roman Pottery. Having worked with Roman Pottery at the Museum i can tell you that yes this does look very like it? :thumbup;
Some we had there had the thumb print pattern around the edges, imagine the thumb prints of all those Roman potters still surviving untill today?
We also had a hand made tile with what appeared to be a dogs paw print in it , as though it had walked upon the clay tile befor it was fired? The Historian told us that in fact it could have been the print of a wolf at around that time?
Hugs Poppy
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Willow
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Lovely work Magz, all together is makes a nice set and the glace looks so nice. :thumbup;

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