Heavenly Scales Kiddush Cup

My ‘heavenly scales kiddush cup’ is truly divine in my eyes! It was wheel thrown from high fire stoneware and the delicate crystalline glaze combination was achieved by layering a few of the crystalline glazes I make in my studio. There is a saucer with the white crystalline glaze on it, but the image isn’t here yet (oops!) It’s similar to the saucer pictured with my ‘Snow Queen’ kiddush Cup.

There are many steps to making crystalline glazed ceramics so it is incredibly time consuming, but I hope you’ll agree that the results are worth the effort! Every piece has a single-use, hand built ‘riser’ and ‘glaze catcher’ dish made to fit it perfectly for the glaze firing. This is necessary as the high gloss crystals need a glaze that flows a lot to develop, and all that flowing glaze has to go somewhere. After the glaze firing, the pieces are removed from the risers and catchers by a number of methods and then the razor edged base needs to be sanded, using 5 different grit sanders until it’s baby-bottom smooth. My crystalline pieces are glaze fired to 1300 degrees celcius over 16.5 hours. They are dishwasher safe, but I recommend to hand wash them to preserve their beauty.