Brown Glaze & No Glaze - Another Inside Out Vase
(2 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)
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I’ve seen one of these vases before (well actually I own one), but I wasn’t expecting to stumble across a second one.
Why anyone took the effort to glaze vases on the inside rather than the outside I don’t know. I mean it must be a night mare to make sure none of the glaze drips onto the surface while you’re swirling it around and then firing the vase.
Still I guess we should be grateful that even though it’s gross, at least it’s functional…. well semi-functional - standing at just about four inches high it’s not really tall enough to put flowers in.
When I wrote about the blue inside out vase I suggested would be just as good if it was simply a dull brown glaze as no one’s going to see it anyway. I should have kept my proverbial mouth shut, this one IS a dull brown glaze that no one’s going to see anyway!
Um…I LIKE this vase! It would have been even better without the handles. I think it is those that make the vase a bit ugly, not the glaze thing…I like inside out glaze too.
It will gather the dust this one, where are you going to put this one Chris? Have you got any room left with all these vases?
Hell yeah DBL: this will be a dusty ugly vase. I bet it feels horrible to touch.. fired, unglazed clay feels like the sound of chalk screeching on a blackboard. (Are we allowed to say blackboard still? Is chalkboard better?)
Are you two trying to say you allow dust in your houses?
You’re right though, it’s ain’t the most tactile of vases.
These are touristy things you get in Tunisia. I have a rather nice pot in a similar style but with green glaze inside.
Practical rationale (I like to do practical once in a while…)
Unglazed terracotta is porous and will absorb wine/oil/water that is put into it. But it takes decoration well, in good detail.
So by glazing the inside the piece can be used to hold water (for a vase) or wine or oil (if a jug) without either losing half of your wine/water into the pottery, or mucking it up if it for oil.
At the same time, the incised decoration stays nice and clean and clear. And once the glaze has dried a bit on the inside, any odd dribbles can be rubbed off the bits not wanted to be glazed.
OK? Practical stuff over.
Aesthetic hat on : Poooh! it’s horrible…:(