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Summary: Clay pottery requires patience and detail with every tool you use to hand craft your piece. Learn about clay forming tips that you will need from a pottery expert to create a butter bell in this free video clip.

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Emily Owen Emily Owen was born and raised in Austin, Texas. She took advanced placement art courses to earn college credit while in High School, before heading to the Un... read more

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Forming Clay for a Butter Bell

A really great pottery project to do on the wheel is called a butter bell or a French butter jar. This is a really old concept and the purpose of this jar is so that you can have butter at room temperature without spoiling just sitting out on your counter. You let your butter, real butter, not margarine get to room temperature and then you smush it into this bell part, you put a little bit of water in the bottom of this piece so that when you put the lid back on the water meets the bell and it forms an airtight seal so that your butter is not in contact with the air and it does not go rampant, it doesn't fall out of the bell. I know it seems strange but it does hold in here and then when you go to serve it at the table you just sit it down like that and your butter is soft and ready to go. Now both of these pieces for this size of butter bell are 1 and 1/4 pounds of clay so I'm going to prepare 2, 1 and 1/4 pound balls, cut a piece off, a little bit more so there is a 1 and 1/4 pound for one side and 1 and 1/4 for the other. So now that I've got my two pieces of clay I will ball that up, make them into two nice round balls and we're ready to go to the wheel.

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