MICHAEL ROSEN - STAR POTTERY
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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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mortar and pestle - 8" dia.x 3" h. - celadon glaze on porcelain
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plate - 8" dia., engobes and clear glaze over white stoneware - This is for the connoisseurs, so they won't think it's just pottery
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Star Pottery mark. This stamp appears on the bottom of most of these pieces.
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candle holders with treefrog handle, iron-bearing glazes - 4" h.
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CECI N’EST PAS UNE ASSIETTE ~ ceremonial dish - 8" d. - engobe with clear glaze
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cylinder - 10 1/2" x 4" - sang de bœuf glaze on white stoneware
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untitled - 11" high - crystalline glaze on white stoneware - signed "Weiss Rosen" on bottom
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untitled 8 oz. cup - 3" h. - sang de bœuf glaze on white stoneware, glaze tests in background

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.

​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 enormous 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.
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fountain head with firefrog and hamburger - iron green glaze on white stoneware, 18" h.
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untitled - 3 1/2" h. - Sèvres blue glaze on porcelain
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detail of 8 oz. cup, Jin glaze, white stoneware
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bowl - 8 1/2" dia., oilspot glaze on white stoneware Blow this one up and look at it.
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cylinder - 11" x 4" - crystalline glaze on white stoneware
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