Several months of preparation have culminated in Passover pottery, new for this spring. Yes, here in the lower Northeast, the "S" word is welcome: "Spring"! It's going to arrive. I promise. Passover coming around is a major harbinger of spring at our house. One of its names is Chag Ha'Aviv, the Holiday of Spring, in fact.
I've been working on these new pieces since autumn, and I'm happy to have them to present on the Jewish Life page on my website. I've kept the color palette simple and low-key, so you can coordinate them with most table settings.
The matzah-textured plates are new this season. I love the design. They're big, too, for handmade round matzahs! You'll be seeing more of these next year.
(17" diameter matzah plate)
(16" diameter matzah plate. My personal favorite this year.)
Also new and extra-big, but smooth, with one large "matzah" written on it (drawn freehand with underglazes, under the glaze):
(19" diameter.)
For those more economically minded, I added small vessels for the Seder table. They can be arranged (as shown here) on your own 13" diameter plate to form a Seder plate:
And I made some small dishes- very useful indeed for salt water, Charoset, Karpas or the like if you want small portions of these things placed along the center of the table for a larger group:
I have some Searching for Leavening (Bedikat Chametz) candle holders as well, which you can find by clicking here.
And here's an important studio update:
While the Passover pottery for 2015/5775 has been on ongoing project, I've continued to unpack and do inventory on the last 15 years of pottery I put away "for a while" in the kiln room and around the studio, pottery which I am in a way rediscovering. Many beautiful things here! I have probably tripled my inventory with these. Who knew I had so much? Not I.
There will be a new sale section of these on my website coming in perhaps a month or two. Although I did not put them out for sale when I first made them, they are good quality, and some represent various styles, clays and glazes that are slightly different from my 2015 ones.
I am doing the unpacking and inventory between making new pottery and teaching in my studio, so this will take a little while. When it comes together, sometime this spring I hope, the prices will be seriously affordable. Check back from time to time to see if the Sale page has gone up, especially when you have a gift-giving opportunity and need to find something nice (and handmade, and affordable) quickly! I will also send out one of my rare email mailings, which you can only get if you are on my list (sign up via my Contact page, above in the menu, to get this!)
As ever, thanks a million for reading the blog, and for staying up to date with my studio. Mention it if you see me. I like to know whose been reading!