{"id":1981,"date":"2021-03-04T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lorrainecliftonceramics.co.uk\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1981"},"modified":"2021-11-08T09:06:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T09:06:47","slug":"oval-luminaries","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/lorrainecliftonceramics.co.uk\/product\/oval-luminaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Oval luminaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oval stoneware pottery luminary for use with candles or string lighting, indoor or out<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hand building process<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The clay for the luminary is hand rolled from grey stoneware clay.\u00a0 Once it has reached a semi-plastic state it is gently coerced into shape and attached to the base.\u00a0 Just before the clay is leather hard, shapes are hand cut from the luminary to allow light to shine through, once lit.\u00a0 The clay is then dried for around a week before the bisque firing, which is to around 1060 degrees centigrade.\u00a0 After cooling, the luminaries are glazed on the interior, then fired to above 1200 degrees depending upon the glaze used.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whilst every attention is made in refining the luminaries, they will be subject to irregularities in shape \u2013 each one is unique!\u00a0 The process takes around than 2 weeks to complete \u2013 this allows for the hand rolling of each luminary, drying before the first firing, glazing and then final firing and cooling.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The price is for one luminary handmade in my studio in the Surrey Hills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oval stoneware pottery luminary for use with candles or string lighting, indoor or out &nbsp; Hand building process &nbsp; The clay for the luminary is hand rolled from grey stoneware clay.\u00a0 Once it has reached a semi-plastic state it is gently coerced into shape and attached to the base.\u00a0 Just before the clay is leather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[15,46,50],"product_tag":[100,39,40,110,109,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorrainecliftonceramics.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorrainecliftonceramics.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorrainecliftonceramics.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorrainecliftonceramics.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorrainecliftonceramics.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorrainecliftonceramics.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorrainecliftonceramics.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorrainecliftonceramics.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}