Titian Studio Pottery Blog

 What's the story? (Photo courtesy of Warren Roberts) On the last weekend of September, I attended the 46th Annual Bottle Show at Hamilton. It was fantastic and I highly recommend that you go along next time it's in your part of town. Oh yes, did I mention the Kiwi Auctions were there, and the sales tables of antiques and collectibles too? I had a wonderful chat with a couple of guys who'd set up the Ti-toki Liqueur bottle display. I certainly learnt a lot from chatting with them. I'm bummed I didn't get their names. Hopefully they'll see my post and get in touch with me. Glass Ti-toki bottle used in the mid 1970s It was in the late 1970s Diane Balich, managing director of wine company based in Swanson, contacted Orzel Industries about commissioning them to make a tekoteko crock for their Ti-toki liqueur. Up until then they'd been using a bulbous shaped glass bottle. The photo above is an empty bottle I rescued from my parent's house when I was a child. ...

  'When rainbows turn rain into gold.' Black Stardust I’m not a potter, so can confess I know zilch about the wonders of creating, using and firing glazes, however, I'm super passionate about Titian Studio's decorative glazes. PB.104 - Black Stardust The stardust pattern shows as tiny gold spots and fine dribbles over a dark underglaze, then finished in clear glaze. The child in me feels it's reminiscent of a vase sitting outside, just as a rainbow passes overhead, turning rain spots into pure gold.  B.102 - Black Stardust Ceramic decorator Mary Baillie had been enticed to come out from England to work for Tom Clarke at Crown Lynn. She brought her mother out with her. After many years with Crown Lynn, she moved to Titian Studio in 1963 at Henderson. Mary brought with her the decorating techniques she’d learnt at Royal Doulton, such as lustres and golds. At Titian she was in charge of gold application, hand decoration and t he applying of transfers. Cam Jnr tells me ...