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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assembly of vessels - sang de bœuf glaze on white stoneware
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fountain head with firefrog and hamburger - iron green glaze on white stoneware, 18" h.
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Candle holder with frog handle - celadon on white stoneware - 4" h.
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covered jar with handle of Western Pond Turtle - celadon glaze
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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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Star Pottery mark. This stamp appears on the bottom of most of these pieces.
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untitled - 3 1/2" h. - Sèvres blue glaze on porcelain
This work is fine art masquerading as tableware.  The material is high-fired stoneware and porcelain.  It is food-safe and can go in an oven, dishwasher and microwave.  However, the purpose is not so much to fill a niche in the tableware market as to use the challenges of tableware as a format for the work.  It can be used at the table but its real purpose is to reach for beauty.
​Celadon
Classic celadon glaze was developed in China beginning about the time of Christ. It has been found in tombs from then.  The term is used for a range of glazes, usually transparent or translucent, green. True celadon is a high-temperature 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 the Song Dynasty variety.  The quiet beauty of this glaze belies its pale color.