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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 4476194, member: 45&quot;]It&#039;s raku (post-firing reduction), not very successful, in that the unglazed clay didn&#039;t turn out very black. </p><p><br /></p><p>Since post-firing reduction was a process developed by American potter Paul Soldner, it dates no earlier than the late 1960s, when he developed it.&nbsp; The white glaze is designed to crack, and isn&#039;t any indication of age.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unless it is glazed inside, and high-fired, raku isn&#039;t water proof.&nbsp; You can wash and dry it, however, without harming the glaze.</p><p><br /></p><p>Raku isn&#039;t a Native American Indian process (although many tribal people have probably tried it over the years.)&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t even call this pot &quot;SW style,&quot; it&#039;s just studio pottery raku.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Soldner, as well as many other potters, were teaching classes, holding numerous workshops, and having raku firings in the 1970s, so just about everyone who was interested eventually tried their hand at making raku pottery. Thus it may be next to impossible to determine who exactly made it. But the way it is signed, with &quot;authority,&quot; indicates it was done by an accomplished potter.&nbsp; Value would be more in the range of whatever an interested buyer was willing to pay for it, based on its decorative value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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