Some more stuff...

Here is a pitcher, it looks a little small in the picture, but its like a normal pitcher in size, that's a little vague, but anyways it's not small. Strange that it came out grey in color, last time I used this glaze it came out bluish. The tea pot is just black, I painted a chrysanthemum on the side with iron oxide, (bengara) but it didn't show up. I've had that problem with this black matte (shiro-matto) glaze, sometimes it shows other times it doesn't. I think the first time I used this combo it showed a lot so much so that it caused the glaze (yuyaku) which is pretty inert to run, so I modified the amount of bengara down; but it's not an exact science, it's mostly a guesstimation done with a paint brush; anyways I can't seem to find a happy medium, and the last couple of times it hasn't shown up or there's just a faint ghost of the image which is barely perceptible. ...I got to change the resolution on my cell phone camera. Sorry such low resolution.