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Oxblood on Stoneware

This classic Chinese glaze is the most challenging of the colours to produce. The colour comes from copper being very precisely fired in a reducing atmosphere and it has a strong tendency not to come out as predicted! If you get it wrong the whole pot can come out a transparent crackled light grey. The glaze has to be thick for the red to form, and any thin areas, eg rims, tend to go white. It also runs rather a lot on vertical surfaces and so I tend to put a black glaze at the bottom of tall shapes. On bigger pieces I try to get the variation of some of the red going black and then white.