Functional Stoneware Pottery
My cone 10 reduction stoneware is dishwasher and microwave safe. Reduction fired stoneware produces some of the most interesting glaze effects.
As the potter fires a gas kiln, the kiln is adjusted to produce extra carbon. The carbon changes the glaze colorants from their oxidized state to a reduced one; these reduced colorants yield brilliantly bright and deep glazes.
Often these effects are happy phenomena of the kiln, which never look exactly alike from kiln load to kiln load.
1880's Folk Art inspired Face Jugs
Hand Thrown & Sculpted at Squeaky Wheel Pottery, by potter Josh Boock
The making of ceramic face jugs in the American south dates back to the mid 1800's. Many southern pottery family's have helped keep this Southern Pottery Tradition alive, by passing it on, through folklore storys.
Some believe these faces on the jugs were used to frighten children from sipping whiskey stored inside them, and others believe they held spiritual significance for the artists .
Others knew the a kind heart would not break or even look in such a container, for the moon shine.
Our work creating and studying these jugs, is bringing to a new level of enlightenment and artistic fulfillment .