FIG-LEAF BOWLS

The above named Fig-Leaf Bowls are named such, because I carved fig leaves which I got from a fig leaf tree that I planted in the garden, several years ago.  It is quite unusual for fig trees to survive the winters in this region, because I think they are basically tropical plants.  A friend, however, planted the trees in her garden and they grew to be large trees, producting bountiful crops of figs annually.  She gave me a plant several years ago, I would carefully nurse it to life each spring, and so it has survived.  A year ago, it actually produced a couple figs, which I ate and then carved one in the bottom of one of the bowls.  

​The bowls were wheel thrown using brown clay.  When leather hard, I carved the leaves on the inside and on some ,on the outside of the bowls and bisqued.  They were then glazed with Celadon in an electric kiln at Cone 6.