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IV Craft, clay and kiln · Plate 014

Trimming a foot ring

The underside of a plate showing a freshly trimmed foot ring.

A foot ring is a low ridge cut on the base that lifts a pot off the table and gives the glaze a clean edge to stop at. Its shape varies with the tradition.

This is a general description, not confirmed to a single source.

Read about it: From a lump of clay to a fired pot: the wheel, the drying shelf and the kiln →

AI-generated illustration in the manner of the tradition, not a photograph of a specific object.

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