Failed Cookie Plate

Here's a category I hope not to post to very often, the "failed" list.  As my friend Bob suggested, these are the creations that are best taken out to the backyard at midnight, with shovel in hand, and buried unceremoniously in some random location.

But the story had an interesting start.  I rolled a slay of Riverside Grit clay (Highwater) and cut bunches of 2D circles with a cookie cutter.  First I tried to fit them together in a single layer, but it was clear that the assemblage would not "meld," so I added a scored second layer offset over the first. 

The bisque firing was successful and everything was nice and solid.

Then, the fatal flaw... a bad glaze selection.  Tomoku Silver (which is actually supposed to come out silver breaking over blue) was applied in three coats.  But the silver never developed, except in a few locations, and the overall effect was to cover up the textures with a thick opaque blue.  Nothing like what I had hoped for. 

But, my wife rescued it from burial... by placing it in section of the garden where its unique characteristics would add to the assemblage she is creating.

Name: Failed Cookie Plate
Size: 7D x 1-1/2
Date: August 2009
Clay: Highwater Riverside Grit
Glaze: Tomoku Silver