Off the Porch and Growling

Also today the Animal pot was returned from the fire. I separated this one from the previous post because I want to re-visit the whole "What animal is it" thing.

This all began back in September ... I decided to make a ritualistic pot with animal heads as handles for someone as a gift. Unfortunately for me, probably because I made the "pig pot" first everyone seems to think the heads are pigs, or cows, or some other animal.

Here is a close up of the head bisque'd and on the other side is the glazed and fired head. I don't see pig, cow or anything else here; I've even heard "it's the ears" what about them? They are pointed. Pointed ... none of the animals mentioned have pointed ears.



I used my typical treatment, red iron oxide, soda ash and a liner glaze. I also added a little copper carbonate for effect.