Small Plate with Cherry Blossom #1 (Free Shipping)

Small plate hand painted with red cherry blossoms. Doubles well as a sushi plate, tapas plate, or dessert plate. Details: ~ Apx. 8.5 inches long, 5 inches wide, about half inch tall. ~ Clear glaze inside / bottom and outside sides are sanded silky smooth. ~ Food, dishwasher, and microwave safe ~ Porcelain clay My process: Small plates! I love these plates because I can use them for everything in the house. I use them to warm stuff in the oven, for butter when entertaining and for serving dessert. I make these from a slab and them press them into foam using a retangular glass dish I found at a yard sale to get the shape and slight scalopping inside the plate. I carefully move them from the foam to a drywall drying board, then when leather hard, I trim the and round the sides. Once the plate is bone dry, I sponge it clean inside and out then paint cherry blossoms on the inside and bottom side of the plate. Then it goes into the kiln for its first firing. A clear glaze finishes the plate