Chickadee Blue Porcelain Bowl 9"

Artist Jen Stein Bio: Growing up in Northern Italy has influenced my passions and esthetics. I have been working in clay since 1994 and absolutely love throwing porcelain on the wheel. Over the years I have made miniatures, large alto-rilievo murals, functional ware, figurative sculpture, and even bathroom sinks.   For the last decade my focus has been making rouletted pottery - intricate bass-relief textures impressed into the rim of my thrown porcelain pots with a hand-carved roulette. I love to sculpt new roulettes (round stamps) so I now have many patterns to offer – mostly inspired by nature. Each pot is numbered and signed, each a carefully detailed yet functional centerpiece. Process: The bas-relief pattern on my pots is made by impressing textures into the soft clay with a 'roulette' - a round porcelain stamp. The sculpting of a roulette is done in reverse: all surfaces meant to protrude must be carved deep into the clay, and the left and right sides of the image must be flippe