At last! New wood-fired bonsai pots

It has been a whole year since my last wood-firing (http://lomov.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/latest-bonsai-pots.html). At last, it’s come along again and I was ready with a few bonsai pots! Some of them are shown below.



Images above show my favorite pot in this batch. Every side of this pot looks interesting. It is stoneware, wood-fired, yellow rutile glaze, round, 19 × 8 cm.

Images above:
Left – stoneware, wood-fired, yellow rutile glaze, round, 16 × 8.5 cm;
Center – a close up of crystalised glaze on one of the pots;
Right – stoneware, wood-fired, yellow rutile glaze, round, 17 × 7.5 cm.

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Left – stoneware, wood-fired, blue stoneware glaze, round, 21.5 × 7.5 cm;
Right – stoneware, wood-fired, blue stoneware glaze, round, 17 × 4.5 cm.

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Left – stoneware, wood-fired, white stoneware glaze, round, 20 × 5 cm;
Right – stoneware, wood-fired, no glaze, round, 15.5 × 4 cm.



Images above:
Left – stoneware, wood-fired, naturally formed ash, round, 16 × 12 cm;
Center – stoneware, wood-fired, naturally formed ash, round, 12.5 × 10.5 cm;
Right – stoneware, wood-fired, yellow rutile glaze, round, 13 × 12 cm.

The pots shown in left and center images above didn't have any glaze, instead they were placed right in front of the fire box in the throat of the kiln. As a result, they were mercilessly beaten by fire, smothered with molten ash and buried in embers. Images below show these two pots before and after firing inside the kiln.     

In case you are wandering what is the throat of a kiln, see images below. All other pots shown in this post were fired in the main chamber of the kiln shown below as well.

P.S. For more info on wood-fired kilns see: http://lomov.blogspot.com.au/2010/08/during-
recent-trip-to-canberra-with.html