Meet the Flatto-Wax

The second generation [the first generation just broke].Not over-stable,but compact and efficient at getting the candle-wax-and-turpentine mix [in the tin on top] to melt.For waxing feet and rims to resist glazes,for the uninitiated.
The first one,which lasted ten years or more,was a bisc bowl with no bottom [trimming error] and some air-holes gingerly knocked through the sides.This one is a cup Sydney gave me to test,made from his experimental mix of Samech Chamesh [local fireclay from Negev] ,our Naaman porcelain and Motza [local brown earthenware] in equal amounts.He already fired a sample- way too much Motza [handle slumped,clay starting to bloat and warp] and is mixing up a modified batch,so this cup had no great future until, plucked from the shard-pile of history,it transformed into the useful and dangerous device you see above.If [when] successful,this will be the ur-Israeli clay ,combining a stoneware,a porcelain and an earthenware [and all from Sydney's legendary and seemingly-bottomless Miscellaneous Ceramic Supplies.]