Strike Two

Yesterday's kiln yielded the first of the new shapes in the struck silver nitrate glaze.
The previous test firing gave too many crystals/not enough background,so I bumped up the top temp. by 5 degrees,which seems to have had the desired results.
When Hans Coper worked with these shapes,he used a much rougher finish [usually oxides rubbed into the clay surface],so it's interesting to see the effect of the thick and smooth crystal glaze.