Stephen W. Mitchell Pottery

This work is new. It is fired like Raku however the pot is started as tall narrow cylinder then Sodium Silicate, saturated with Red Iron Oxide, is painted on the wet clay. When the Sodium Silicate is hard the cylinder is stretched into the vase shape cracking the surface of the clay. After bisque firing, a translucent silver nitrate glaze is applied and then the piece is fired to 2200 degrees followed by the Raku reduction technique. (See Photo Gallery for more.)