Using those slump molds some more. When I made them I had some ideas how I wanted to use them, and here are two.
Seder plate, rawware
1) This is a Seder plate for Passover with the dishes for the various Seder items on it. It's about 16" in diameter at the moment, though it will shrink 12%.
Same plate and small dishes with underglazes on showing what the Seder items are; below. (Has to dry and be fired, clear-glazed and fired again.) Seder items drawn here are: horseradish root, egg, shank bone, parsley, lettuce, with bricks and mortar to represent charoset.
(Slab, slump-mold to form Seder plate, with underglaze drawing on it. Mimi Stadler, 2015)
Some of the colors will change fairly radically. Clay will be ivory, not browny-gray, and underglaze colors will darken.
2) Matching in color, without the black images and with the addition of dark peach letters, a Matzah plate. It was made from a slab I slumped into a great big, round plate that had been made and bisqued (but never glazed) by my old friend Selma. I added a foot ring, also made from a slab.
(Matzah plate. When the underglazes are bisque fired, I believe the word Matzah, spelled here in Hebrew but hard to see, will be darker and easier to see. If not, I'll go over it in black. Mimi Stadler, 2015).
You can see that the plate has a raised profile. If you look hard you can also see that it has a hole (actually 4) through the foot ring so it can be hung on the wall:
My further slump-mold adventures.