Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP

Bowl

USA, 2016
<p>A <span> se</span>rving bowl with <span>cream colored glaze</span>. It has a small foot, the sides slant out at a 45 degree angle until the top diameter <span>is </span>three times the foot. There is a lighter cream square at the foot, a red one above it, and finally part of a blue square that ends at the rim.</p><p>The unglazed earthenware underside.</p><p>A mug with a hexagonal foot. As the body grows it becomes round. Part way up the sides begin to slope in creating a distinct shoulder before they gradually flare out to the rim. The curved handle that begins at the rim ends at the shoulder. The mug is glazed a deep cream color. There is a long thin horizonal red rectangle with a long black line in it. The rectangle is half way from the shoulder to the rim.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
Date acquired:
Materials:
Stoneware
Form - Functional: N/A
Form - Sculptural: N/A
Method:
Thrown
Surface Technique: N/A
Kiln Type: N/A
Glazes:
Glaze
Tom Jaszczak

William Baker is known for wheel thrown pieces that are made using either stoneware or porcelain. Included in his production are lidded jars, small bowls, plates, keepsake boxes, vases, dinner plates, cups, and larger vessels. Pieces range in size from several inches to nearly 18 inches high. Baker frequently fires in the atmospheres of soda and wood kilns. His design elements include squared panels and corners, bulbous squared knobs and lipped base foot rims. Some pieces are dipped in a flashing slip while others are left raw clay surface.Typical colors include varied tones of deep red, soft peach, light cream, bronze, olive green and muted gray. Occasionally a few small sea shells are impressed into the surface to create firing patterns and an impressed pattern.

Baker first encountered clay in college, at University of Puget Sound, and has been a potter since. He and his wife, Joy Tanner, are full time potters in North Carolina. Baker is a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild, and the Toe River Arts Council.

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