Golden Rooster Looks West, Roaring Lion Looks East Reassembled Ring Teapot

This is the first Reassembled Ring Teapot I made where I used cone 017 gold luster in an additional 1400F low-temperature kiln firing after the 2150F cone 5 glaze firing. In my earlier Sparks Fly Up Reassembled Ring Teapot, also found in this “Teapots For Sale” section, I had applied gold leaf to some of the Teapot’s surfaces, but that was a very finicky problematic process, and I have not used gold leaf again. For this Teapot I made a triangular teardrop-top, flat-bottomed cross-section ring on the potter’s wheel with groove channels trimmed into both sides of the ring’s flat bottom. I cut the ring into five curvy-end arc sections with my x-acto knife, sealed the ends with flat-panel slabs, and reassembled the arc sections into a wide V-shape mounted on the centrally-positioned oval base, balancing the left and right arms of the V. Two clay props were made to support the left and right arms during the biscuit and glaze firings—without supports the weight of the arms would cause them to sag and tear the joins at the center of the V. I dipped the Teapot into our matte gold glaze and fired it to cone 5. After the glaze firing I painted gold luster—an expensive but commonly-available low-fire glaze made of real liquid gold in a lacquer-type solution—into the trimmed groove channels and on the edges of the “Golden Rooster” lid finial and the tooth-decorated back and grooves of the slab-built “Roaring Lion” spout. A subsequent cautious slow-temperature-rise to 1400F cone 017 yielded the bright shiny gold highlights seen in this distinctive sculptural Golden Rooster Looks West, Roaring Lion Looks East Reassembled Ring Teapot.

14” Tall x 18” Wide x 6” Deep

Cone 5 oxidation firing
Price: $3600