How do I glaze this piece of pottery without it sticking to the kiln?

I%26#039;m planning how I would glaze a piece I have not made yet, simply, a round lid shape with walls. Example: http://www.justbynature.com/images/conta...





I don%26#039;t want to leave the rim (pointing down) unglazed - is there any way to go about firing this so that this edge can be glazed?
How do I glaze this piece of pottery without it sticking to the kiln?
Well, I%26#039;m not entirely sure of what you%26#039;re asking, but it you just wax the very bottom of the edge, you can glaze the entire piece with a non runny glaze. Just as long as you leave that edge, the lip of the lid, the part that will be touching the kiln (preferably some stilts) than it should be fine. Make sure you know your glazes, though.





If you%26#039;re talking about glazing the rim of the lid, think of it this way: some part of the pot needs to not have glaze on it so that it can touch the kiln and not fuse to it.
How do I glaze this piece of pottery without it sticking to the kiln?
At what temp. will this be fired to? If you are using low fire clay in a low fire kiln firing you can fire the lid and pot seperately by stilting the lid using little metal pronged kiln stilts on the inside of the lid so you can glaze it on all sides. Stilting only works for lower fired work because higher firing claybodies tend to warp a bit in the high fire so the lid might warp a bit around the stilt.





You will have to take a silicon carbide grinding stone to remove the little mars the stilt makes on the underside on the lid but that is very easy tho you will likely always see where the stilt prongs sat. Also when you make the ware you need to accomadate the added width the glaze will give the glazed lid rim and glazed pot rim to get a good fitting lid.
Reply:You can use a stilt to suspend the shape above the kiln shelf.





Essentially, a stilt is a set, usually 3, of sharp points that is designed to be fired in a kiln. The sharp points will leave small marks, but 1) they will be on the inside of the lid and 2) they%26#039;re pretty small marks.





Be sure that you keep the glaze fairly thin (or make sure you have a %26quot;stiff%26quot; glaze), otherwise the glaze may run down the outside of the lid and form drips at the edge of the lid.
Reply:try not painting the bottom of the object it used to work for me
Reply:you have two choices -


if you want to use a high-fire or medium fire glaze you can prop it up in the kilm on a kiln post. however, that would mean that the inside of the lid isn%26#039;t glazed where it touches the post. whatever part touches the post or the glaze shelf in the kilm cannot be glazed.





if you want to have color on the rim, then you can use an underglaze on the rim, fire it to a bisque fire, then glaze it with a high or medium fire glaze, leaving the rim of the lid unglazed.





there is no way to use a high or medium fire glaze over the entire thing. its not as noticeable as you think leaving it unglazed a little. and it makes a better sound on the container when it is two unglazed surfaces touching.





remember too, if you do glaze the rim, you%26#039;re making the surface larger and thus it may not fit onto your pot anymore.





good luck!