Croissant Box Pattern

 We bought a box of croissants one day and I was smitten by the pattern of the cardboard container - it was too good for recycling. When I took it in to my class, Paul suggested that I should paint the cardboard with shellac, build a clay surround, and pour in a portion of plaster to make a more permanent stamp than the cardboard original.  When I had stamped out the tile, I painted on white glaze into the grooves.  I then rubbed off the raised surface with a clean cloth before painting on the black glaze.

I saw in the British Museum an Assyrian wall relief with rivers flowing in just such a way as this pattern and thought I might go on to make a river box with the plaster stamp - clay fish and clay snails could be added before it was fired.