Mike Rosen - ceramic arts
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8 oz. cups - 9 glazes - white stoneware
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funerary urn - celadon glaze
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Gilhooly's Bride - white stoneware with various glazes, 3 1/2" dia.
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fountain head with firefrog and hamburger - iron green glaze on white stoneware, 18" h.
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"Gr 55" candle holder with treefrog handle - celadon on white stoneware - 4" h.
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dish - purple and white high-magnesia glazes
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mortar and pestle - 8" dia. - celadon glaze
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assembly of vessels - sang de bœuf glaze on white stoneware
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covered jar with handle of Western Pond Turtle - celadon glaze
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CECI N’EST PAS UNE ASSIETTE ~ ceremonial dish - 8" d. - engobe with clear glaze
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untitled - 3 1/2" h. - Sèvres blue glaze on porcelain
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candle holder with treefrog handle, sang de bœuf glaze - 4" h.
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Star Pottery mark. This stamp appears on the bottom of most of these pieces.
This work is fine art masquerading as tableware.  The challenges of tableware are an artistic device.  The material is high-fired stoneware and porcelain.  It is food-safe and can go in a dishwasher and microwave, or be buried underground for 2,000 years.
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​Celadon
Classic celadon glaze was developed in China beginning about the time of Christ. It has been found in tombs from that period.  The term is used for a range of glazes, usually transparent or translucent, green. True celadon is a high-temperature feldspathic glaze fired in a reducing atmosphere, colored with iron.  The quality of this glaze reached its zenith during the Song Dynasty (960 - 1279 A. D.). It was prized in the imperial courts and made in large quantities. It was sometimes referred to as "poor man's jade."  Song Dynasty celadon has a light jade green color. It is applied thickly, but remains translucent.  Its surface resembles unpolished jade, a surface which has been called buttery. Since the Song Dynasty, celadon has been produced all around the world. Some of this is quite well made, but it is almost all shiny.  Shiny is a far easier surface to produce on this kind of glaze.  A jade-like surface is only possible with some very narrow ranges of composition. My celadon glaze is of the Song variety.  The quiet beauty of this glaze belies its pale color.