Lean Into Joy porcelain offering dish

Joy is sometimes so hard to come by; I've learned to lean into it whenever it presents itself. This came out of the fire and made me physically gasp. I generally use the same clay, hand-mixed glazes, and kiln for nearly all my work (Jack Troy porcelain/BwhaleD and BchunderD over black underglaze with some collected ash for spice/Morty the salt kiln), but with atmospheric firing, every kilnload is different. This has some sweet carbon trapping, which is what is causing that delicious iridescent grey (starving the fuel-rich kiln of oxygen to create soot at a point in the firing where the melting glaze will trap it). It is a "reliably unreliable" artform. That crackly, crystalline green? Molten ash. Ridiculous. Salt-fired porcelain makes this offering dish a natural fit for any tableau. Use it for bracelets, blessings, blunts, and bialys (top rack dishwasher-safe, just clean and reuse). The lettering is done with pasta alphabet letters set one at a time into the clay with tweezers (as a j