Liz Denys

Starlit sky coffee pitcher, 2024

April 13, 2024

Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window glass
Black stoneware clay with fine white grog, slab-built, blue hare's fur glaze

This black stoneware pitcher has a squat, geometric form with a hexagonal base and opening. The form flares out towards the bottom and each of the six sides is made of two trapezoids - a larger one on top and a smaller on the bottom.

The blue hare's fur glaze is applied in a tape-resist starburst pattern from the corners of the geometric form.

The glaze is mostly transparent but speckles of blues, both light and navy, float in each section of glaze.

The bottom is sanded to give a perfectly flat surface and some lighter brown texturing around the edges. My signature and the year are stamped in the bottom, and glaze fills those impressions.

The inside of the pitcher is glazed solidly in the blue hare's fur glaze.