In my third year we were given a project where we assigned to directly reproduce a historical or art object in clay- this meant considering shrinkage, scale, texture, glazing and firing finishes. I chose a statue of Bastet, known as The Gayer-Anderson Cat from the British Museum Collection. Below is the documentation of my process and the final results.
The final Bastet... I would have liked the bronze to be less mottled but one more firing seemed unwise.
view from the back
fresh out of the second firing, no jewelry yet! The third firing was where I did the gold lustre on the nose ring. I attached the earrings with wire like in the original image
The final match
all of the glaze tests to get the aged bronze right!
The first firing... too thin of a glaze application. I had to add more and re-fire
First firing... to thin of a glaze application!
drying so slowly
building off a measured template at the base to account for 16% shrinkage
coming to life
working through details at green stage