celadon chawan

a teabowl with an unassuming shape,
made from grey kaolinitic clay.
thrown and trimmed on a kick-wheel.
it is glazed with a celadon glaze that contains reed ash,
apple wood ash, feldspar, china clay and sand,
with a higher percentage of china clay
than my other celadon glazes.
the crackles in this glaze are very large,
there are only 3 or 4 cracks in the glaze on the whole piece.
it also has particularly nice air bubbles suspended in it.
in the center, around the chadamari, it turned a chun-like blue.
there is some crazing on the lower outside wall.
I did not wipe the glaze off the footring after glazing
and placed the piece on a thick layer of sand in the kiln.
the glaze and the sand fused in the firing and I chose to grind off
only the grains of sand that came off easily
and leave the fused glaze/sand mixture intact.
this creates the appearance of a bowl standing on a cloud of sand.