This conical shaped porcelain vase is 15cm tall, with a base 10cm wide and the aperture is 5cm wide.  Having embroidered the blue-tit and the branch of magnolia, I cast the fabrics in plaster, into which I can press a porcelain slab.  This slab is then cut and joined into shape.  The texture of the stitches have been overpainted at bisque stage with cobalt and fired to give a beautiful rich blue.  The interior has a shiny transparent glaze, the exterior is matt and there is a gold lustred rim.