Raku Fired Gres Pot by Margarita Sala Gaschen (Spain,2017)
Margarita Sala Gaschen is one of Spain’s most accomplished ceramic artists. Born in Barcelona in 1947, she studied at the Massana School of Applied Arts specializing in ceramics from 1965 to 1970 and has exhibited and been avidly collected since 1968.
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The raku technique used on this piece is a firing process in which the piece is removed from the kiln when bright red hot and subjected to post firing reduction or smoking by placing in a container with combustible materials. This blackens the raw clay and creates cracks in glazes. As with all things, there is the master artisans touch applied to create this beautiful piece.
Raw raku is a variation on this technique in which a slip is applied to the pot before it is placed in the raku kiln. The slip cracks and breaks apart during the firing process and is chipped off afterwards to reveal blackened cracking patterns.
- Country: Spain
- Region: Barcelona
- Material: Gres
- Object Type: Sculptural pot
- Dimensions: 16cm H x 14cm Diameter
- Weight: 1.52Kg
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