Promotion of the wheelthrown porcelain dinnerware online workshop at TeachinArt. Antoinette Badenhorst shows how to use a wooden tool and Mudtools kidneys to shape and form some of the bowls and platters.

Wheel thrown porcelain dinnerware

The wheel-thrown porcelain dinnerware online class is a comprehensive six-week ceramic course, complemented by an additional four weeks of access to video demonstrations. Participants will learn how to create a complete porcelain dinner set (chinaware) on the pottery wheel. The course covers throwing various items, including bowls, plates, mugs, tumblers, goblets, casseroles with different lid styles, gravy boats, candlestick holders, and salt and pepper shakers.

There are certain essentials that is needed to know when designing and making dinnerware. Since we discussed that in detail in the Handbuilding Porcelain Dinnerware e-course, we will not include it again in this class.
​Duration of class
6 weeks formal video classes, 4 weeks reviewing
10 weeks total viewing

Contents of the class

Antoinette uses a template that she made to form and shape a wheel-thrown cylinder into a porcelain mug. The picture shows her during the recording of the
Week 1 - Cylinders 
  • Throwing cylinder variations.
  • Mugs
  • Tumblers
  • Goblets
  • Throwing off the hump
  • Foot rims
  • Handles​
Week 2 - The bowl
  • Serial bowl
  • Pie dish
  • Large open bowl
  • Rims (variations)
  • Foot rims
Antoinette adds the handles of the porcelain casserole that she made during the recording of the Wheelthrown Porcelain Dinnerware online workshop at TeachinArt.


​Week 3 - The bowl: one step further
  • Lidded casserole
  • Casserole dish
  • The gallery
  • Foot rims
  • Knobs
  • Lugs
  • Various lids
A display of the porcelain dinnerware pieces that were made during the recording of the online workshop

​Week 4 Plates and platters
  • Throwing plates 
  • Plate difficulties
  • Wide rim platter
  • Easy platter
  • Trimming plates
  • Foot rims
  • Double foot rim
Throwing a double wall to form a candle stick holder. Antoinette Badenhorst explains how she uses porcelain clay to make collectable dinnerware for the kitchen.

​Week 5 Altering forms
  • Turn the cylinder on its side
  • Salt & pepper shaker
  • Decanter
  • Flower vase
  • Oval bowl
  • Candle stick
  • Oval platter (two part)
Antoinette Badenhorst shows a green porcelain bowl that she made during her wheel-thrown porcelain dinnerware online workshop. Glazing and firing porcelain is included in the class.

Antoinette shows a porcelain bowl with foot rim and her signature.



​Week 6 Glazing and firing
  • Mixing a basic porcelain glaze
  • Glazing considerations
  • Design considerations
  • Firing considerations