Handbuilt ladle or punch scoop. White stoneware fired to cone 6 oxidation. White glaze inside and black glaze in carvings. 3 x 3 x 13 inches.
You hold the head and fill the ladle using the bowl-shaped end. Then tip it so that the liquid pours out of the dragon's mouth.
The inscription on the sides is silly, badly- spelled, and written in Quenya using the Tengwar. The grammar is also odd. Luckily, all that shows up in the photo is the first sentence. ("'Nai lóce sina calpuva ar ulyuva findenen.' 'Tancave, i yulma len enquantuva alassinen!' 'Le hantan; nai nauva úterhanta tennoio.'"
Very loosely translated: "'May this dragon draw water and pour with skill.' 'Certainly, I [the punch scoop] will gladly refill the cup for you!' 'Thank you; may you never break.'")
The idea is very original, I'd love to use one of those. The inscription is a great detail, I long for the time when people used to thank their belongings ^^
Thank you. Part of the inspiration for the inscription was the fact that as I was making it, tiny cracks would occaisionally appear (the clay I used was new; so, it wasn't very plastic). I just kept repairing the cracks as they formed, and, luckily, they stayed gone.
I'm working on a set of other pieces to go with this one. I already have several regular sized cups and lots of smaller cups (about shot-glass sized). The main thing to work on now is a bowl big enough to go with this punch scoop.
Ooh! A Sindarin reading person. For all practical purposes, I only read Quenya (can just barely manage some Sindarin). Even if you can read both in Roman letters, it's hard to do so in tengwar since the tehta/tengwa reading order is different for the two languages. I love the look of the Sindarin "full writing" mode (like in the Moria gate inscription), though.
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I'm working on a set of other pieces to go with this one. I already have several regular sized cups and lots of smaller cups (about shot-glass sized). The main thing to work on now is a bowl big enough to go with this punch scoop.
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Ooh! A Sindarin reading person.
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