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McCanless Pottery decorated ware is all free-hand painted using Chinese calligraphy brushes. The colorants used are various metallic carbonates and oxides such as iron, copper, cobalt, and chrome, as well as others. These metallic pigments are brushed onto a white base glaze which covers the entire pot. As the decorated piece is being fired in the kiln, the metallic pigments melt into the white base glaze setting the pigments permanently as part of the glaze. |
Crystalline is a special effects glaze made
primarilyof particles of zinc oxide and silica.
Read more about the crystalline process.
Seagrove Red
Seagrove Red is an earthenware glaze which gets its brilliant red color from cadmium. For this reason, the glaze is strictly decorative. Reds can also be achieved by lead, chrome, or copper. Cadmium and lead, however, give the most vibrant red colors. This glaze is very difficult and requires strict application and firing techniques. To intensify the color, McCanless Pottery uses a red, iron-rich earthenware clay. The complex forms thrown for these pieces add to the beauty of the glaze. McCanless Pottery uses
the name Seagrove Red because of the glaze's rich tradition, throughout the generations, in the Seagrove area.
all photo credit: Juan Villa / Villa Photography
Website: McCanless Pottery