Ingredients

Ingredient Amount
Barium Carbonate 8.00
Bone Ash 2.00
Magnesium Carbonate 3.00
Strontium Carbonate 4.50
Whiting 9.00
Potash Feldspar 46.00
Kaolin 4.50
Silica 23.00
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Copper Oxide 1.50
Tin Oxide 3.00
Silicon Carbide 1.00

Instructions

Published in "Satori Yamaoka's Kobushigama" by Bob McvWilliams, in the May 2005 issue of Ceramics Monthly.


Because Peacock Glaze involves several layers, thickness will will affect the result. First, apply all 3 Shinsha Glazes and fire in reduction in Cone 8. Then pour any one of the Kujaku (Peacock) Glazes, then any type of Ash Glaze #1 and Ash Glaze #2. Fire again in reduction to Cone 9.