Packing and Shipping a Teapot

detail

double boxing using egg cartons as firm cushions

2 foam sheets cut to size of inner box  one for bottom and one for top

firm but flexible foam sheet cut up and made into a box

checking to see that there is room for bubblewrap

when making this piece kept in mind that the lid would need to fit upside down for shipping

lid fits upside down, but a piece of paper towel was wrapped to keep it from rubbing

the piece is in there tight...no movement

in each corner rolled up bubblewrap inserted to make sure

 

 

fitted foam top taped down on inner box

two layers of big bubble wrap on top

the inside box is not moving at all

 ready to ship!

 

Pear Nest Teapot

Ceramic

Terra sigillata and glazes, wood stem

12" x 6" x 6"

 sold

 

This little teapot was accepted into the Big Fish Small Pot: Sixth International Small Teapot Competition and Show. This show is at the American Museum of Ceramic Arts in Pomono, California.  I rarely have a sculptural teapot left to enter into juried shows.  Mainly they go straight to a gallery and gather no moss.  So I purposely set this one aside to enter into this show.  With the kiln problems, computer problems, running up and down the coast, it didn't get done until the very last second.  With my photography equipment at the other house I had to use my little camera and a makeshift backdrop.  I quickly did a photo shoot in my dark walk-in closet with a LED tungsten flashlight.  That was fun.  Thank goodness I had cleared it out just before the New Year.  The photo I sent was worst than the one above.  Yikes.  I was feeling some embarrassment sending that jpeg.  As I confess this my cheeks are heating to a tin chrome red.