Pink Tusk Reassembled Ring Teapot
13" wide x 14" tall x 7 " deep
With this teapot I returned to the positive-curve triangular cross-section
ring I used for my Mint Green
Sharp Edges Reassembled Ring Teapot and my Lemon
Yellow Triangular Cross-Section Reassembled Ring Teapot. I
was trying to create a sculptural composition reminiscent of, but
different from the collapsed-ring compositions of my Aztec
Headdress Teapot, Red Frost Teapot, Purple
Pentagonal Cross-Section Teapot,
and my Blue Billowing Spinnaker Teapot. In each of these
compositions I was trying to simultaneously refer to the original
unbroken ring and show sculpturally interesting and balanced variations
on the arc reassembly process. The teapot spout for this
Pink Tusk Teapot was thrown, then squashed and altered after it
was attached. It reminds me of those big baggy pants the
hiphop boys wear low on their waists, which bunch up over their
expensive unlaced Michael Jordan sneakers. The tusk finial
is also reminiscent of the Nike swoosh, a second Michael Jordan
reference, and is a sculptural motif variant on the lid finials
of the Red Frost, Purple Pentagonal Cross-Section, Blue Billowing
Spinnaker, and Grasshopper Leaping Teapots. I glazed it with
a first coat of our opaque glossy white glaze, then a second coat
of pink glaze, the same combination I used with my Strawberry
Pink Reassembled Ring Teapot, my Pink Frost Teapot, and the pink triangular
cross-section teapot of the 3-teapot grouping “The
Teapot Family Relaxes At Home.”
The
pink-over-white glaze coating had both glaze crawl and glaze overrun
flaws, and I had to grind off the excess glaze crawls and dot the
unglazed patches with fresh glaze before re-firing. More
glaze overruns resulted from the second firing --I had obviously
glazed the teapot too thickly for the first firing—so I ground
off the glaze runs again and re-fired the teapot for the third
time. This time it came out of the kiln in excellent shape! The
three glaze firings softened and bleached the pink glaze to its
handsome pale bone-like appearance, and almost-but-not-quite blurred
out the green highlights I had put in the grooves on the lower
left end of the lid finial.
This “Pink
Tusk Reassembled Ring Teapot” is a much simpler composition
than many of my recent teapots, such as “It
Is Still, And Yet It Moves Reassembled Ring Teapot,” and “Water Dragon
Reassembled Ring Teapot,” but I think it holds its own with
these more complex teapot sculptures. The slightly-taller-than-wide
portrait format of its photo image, its bright color, and its clean
yet mysterious sculptural presence made it the strongest choice for
the postcard flyer photo for the exhibition “Complementary
Visions: Greg Winterhalter and Ray Bub,” which is on
display in the Bennington Museum Flag Gallery, Bennington, Vermont,
from September 8--November 17, 2007. More information about
this exhibition can be found in the Exhibitions section of this web
site.
This teapot is for sale.
Price: $1600
If you are interested in purchasing it please visit the Ordering
Information section.
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