Blue-Green Pentagonal Cross-Section Reassembled Ring Teapot

My plan with this ring was to cut it apart and reassemble it in a long stretched-out line, posing the assembly on three points of the composition without an added base. I put the handle close to the spout on the other side of the arc section, and cut the "trap door" lid out of the overhanging arc section above the spout. I tried several finials on the lid, finally choosing a spiked sphere with the projections bent and curled to look like a seed pod. At this point I was still assembling the arc sections end to end, but I offset the joins rather than trying to fit the pentagonal openings exactly onto one another. I glazed this teapot with a pale blue glaze covered by a pale green glaze, but the blue color dominated after the first firing, so I painted a second layer of thickened green glaze onto the shiny blue glazed surface and re-fired the teapot. Re-firing is always risky, because the already fired piece can crack from uneven heat shock while the kiln heats up, but I sometimes do it when I am unsatisfied with the first firing's results. In this case the second glaze firing improved the teapot's presence quite a bit.

This teapot is for sale.
Price: $1400

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