Smooth dish

Elena Aleksejeva made this bowl using the Lithuanian leaven technique, the dish is submerged into the leaven liquid which burns the sprinkled pattern on the surface and leaves slight dents. It also turns the white stoneware naturally – not perfectly – white and the patterns smoothly transition from dark brown to the overall light shade of the vessel. The dish has then been smoothed out to settle the colours in. Ceramics using this technique are fully organic and must be low fired in the authentic kiln.