Mussel Pottery Shell Dish LARGE 21" Starfish Nautical Beach signed by Jan Sell

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No chips or cracks.
Mussels & More Art Pottery Shell signed by Jan Sell. 21 Dish Barnacles & Starfish Nautical Beach dish or pottery sculpture. Condition is great used condition! 21" X 8" X 4" deep.
As Jan originally envisioned, the shell dishes are both beautiful and functional. Serve your next seafood dish in this exquisite nautical presentation. Glazed bisque ware is rolled into the large gas kiln where it is fired for 11 hours. The family business from Vancouver Canada was also able to maintain the artisan aspect of the pieces. Despite their range of products and production volume, each piece is still one-of-a-kind, with hand-applied embellishments and hand-brushed glazes. Production blends high volume techniques and hand-work. Once Jan has created the initial design and a prototype, Erins fianc Blair Holmes makes a die for a stamping press. The die stamps out the basic shape of each piece. The detailing, a mix of starfish, small clams, barnacles, and sea worms, is added by hand, ensuring each piece is unique. Then the pieces are fired overnight in a low-temperature electric kiln, to creating bisque ware for glazing. Custom-made glazes are brushed on by hand and are designed to mimic the naioutural shades of shells. Some glazes replicate the natural shells beautiful pearly opalescence. The final step is 11 hours of firing at 2285 degrees in an industrial-sized, 12-foot high gas kiln. Jangives everyone access to the magic of serving from a shell, just as she originally imagined it.