Blooming Girls Sapphire Vessel

Theodora’s signature Blooming Girls started in paint and now expands to ceramics. Blooming Girls contain a special message — visual reminders to keep growing in every season of life.

Each handmade piece contains unique character, shape and imperfections — all imprints of the artistic process and the hand of the maker. This unique vessel shape has the most perfectly imperfect ruffles and curves with the inside showcasing the abstract painterly layers of underglaze like a great Jackson Pollock masterpiece. The vessel showcases a parade of hand carved Snow Drop blossoms.

• Measures 9"H x 6"W 
• Food safe and lead free.
• Hand wash recommended.
• All sales final.

The Artisanal Creative Process:
This exquisite one-of-a-kind vessel was hand built by Theodora using a coil technique with stoneware clay. Once the vessel has taken shape and dried to a perfect leather hard condition, the real fun begins.After several layers of underglaze and drying time, she hand draws the botanical composition with a clay carving tool. She then uses the sgrafitto technique in an unhurried and careful scratching of the top layer of painted clay to reveal texture below. Sgraffito comes from the Italian word meaning “scratching”, and it is believed that this method originated in the 10th century from ancient Egypt and Roman periods with a substantial appearance of original designs during the 13th century in the Iberian Peninsula under Islamic influences