Jen Stas Pottery Songbird Mug

This nature inspired Songbird Mug hand built by ceramic artist Jen Stas.

This stunning mug is created by carving the image into the clay; this is called sgraffito. The mug is slab built with a folded seam down the back, satin under glaze, and a shiny glazed bird. The background highlights the bird with green accenting the rim and the lining of the mug.

Jennifer, a full-time potter in Wake Forest, NC., creates a marriage between aesthetics and function, through distinctive use of color and form. Starting with a practical and useful form, the pottery becomes a functional palette for layers of colorants and carving. Finding inspiration in the endless imagery of the mountains and coasts of North Carolina, her pottery reflects it's vibrant colors with the earthy brown of the clay and the contrast of mattes and velvets against shiny and hard surfaces.

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