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by Frances Smith Ceramics · Kiama, NSW
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Hand-crafted Cool Ice Porcelain vessel featuring a whimsical platypus design with golden wings. Combines artistry and functionality for modern home decor. SOLD but commissions are welcome.
Meet the Aussie Platypus from our Zany Characters series—a playful, functional vessel made from Cool Ice Porcelain. Combining wheel throwing, carving, and hand-building, it features lively illustrations, underglaze details, and lustrous gold accents. Fun, unique, and practical, it adds a cheeky charm to any space.
Cool Ice Porcelain is a premium ceramic clay known for its silky smooth texture and brilliant white finish, ideal for creating intricate and delicate works of art. This versatile clay offers exceptional workability and strength, making it perfect for both wheel-throwing and hand-building techniques.
Artistic objects made from clay and fired to create pottery, vases, or decorative objects.
A series of joyful animal characters
A collection where the artist personally selects and holds their favorite creations, showcasing a deeply personal reflection of their journey, evolution, and the themes that resonate most with them.
A pottery technique where clay is shaped into forms on a rotating potter's wheel, allowing for symmetrical and rounded shapes, often used for creating bowls, vases, and other vessels.
This method involves shaping clay without a wheel, using techniques like pinching, coil construction, and slab building, offering more versatility in shapes and textures.
Hand-painting or drawing on the clay surface with underglazes or colored slips before the glazing process, showcasing artistic imagery or motifs.
A ceramic art technique that uses the clay surface as canvas to be illustrated with line and colour techniques. These methods allow for detailed, vibrant designs that make each piece a true work of art.
About the artist
Frances Smith CeramicsCreating Elegance in Clay. Discover hand-crafted, functional vessels blending artistry and utility to enhance modern home decor with unique, thoughtful designs. Each piece, a testament to the beauty of functional art, infuses daily life with beauty and elegance.
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Removing clay to create decoration or shape in the clay body, often using tools to incise or sculpt the clay, adding depth and dimension to the work.
The application of colored decoration to the surface of a piece before it is glazed, allowing for detailed and intricate designs that are sealed and protected by a clear or translucent glaze.
A metallic glaze that gives ceramics a shiny, reflective surface, applied over a fired glaze and then fired again at a lower temperature to fuse the lustre to the surface.
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