Ancient Jasper
Amaco Potter's Choice
If someone asks for one glaze that will make their first real pot look like they knew what they were doing, this is the answer.
The glazes we keep coming back to. Not the bestsellers, not the prettiest jars, just the ones that keep earning it.
Every glaze on this page is marked a studio favorite in our own records, and the standard for that mark is narrow. It has to be forgiving enough that a member gets a good result without a rehearsal, interesting enough to be worth choosing over a flat color, and consistent enough that the test tile and the finished pot look like the same glaze.
Membership level is no longer the story here, because that has a page of its own now. What is left is the shorter question: of everything we stock, which ones do we actually reach for.
Plenty of glazes we love are not on this list. Some are gorgeous and unpredictable, some only work in one situation, and some need a conversation before anyone uses them. Those are worth using; this list is just the shorter road.
81 is a lot to look at. If you want three, these are the three.
Amaco Potter's Choice
If someone asks for one glaze that will make their first real pot look like they knew what they were doing, this is the answer.
Amaco Celadon
The favorite that rewards patience. Carve something, glaze it in this, and the glaze finds the work you did.
Coyote Gloss
Unglamorous and on this list for a reason. A reliable black under or beside anything else makes the rest of the pot look deliberate.
Grouped by maker. Every tile is one we fired ourselves.
The deepest bench here, and most of it is Potter's Choice and the celadons, both built around breaking over a carved surface.
The most dependable jars we own. Coyote's Gloss range in particular is what everything else gets layered over.
Where most of the everyday color lives, and the range a member is most likely to find the exact shade they pictured.
Reactive by design. Fewer favorites, but the ones that made it are the ones that behave.

The bar is behavior, not beauty. A favorite has to be forgiving enough that a member gets a good result without a rehearsal, interesting enough to be worth choosing over a flat color, and consistent enough that the test tile and the finished pot look like the same glaze.
Plenty of glazes we love fail that third test on purpose. They are still worth using. They are just not what somebody wants on the day they are glazing a gift.

Almost every piece that stops people in the studio uses two or three glazes rather than one, and the pattern is usually the same. A solid base doing the work, a reactive or breaking glaze over part of it, and a hard edge between them where you stopped the second glaze deliberately.
You do not need a complicated idea. You need one glaze that behaves and one that misbehaves, and the discipline to leave a clean line between them.

Every tile in the Bible is one we fired, which makes them honest but not complete. A tile is flat, small, and fired in one spot in one kiln. Your pot is none of those things.
Treat a tile as a reliable guide to color and a rough guide to behavior. For anything you actually care about, the answer is still a test on your clay, on your form, at your thickness.
We mark it, based on how it behaves on real member work rather than on how the jar looks.
Not necessarily. Popular and dependable are different things, and this list is about the second one.
No. Some of the most interesting things on our shelves are deliberately not here, because they need more from you.
Anything on this page, over a pot with a bit of texture on it.
Yes. It moves as we see more work come out of the kilns.
No. Each glaze page states its own membership level, and favorites are spread across all of them.
There is no trick to this page. It is the shelf we would point at if you asked us in person, written down so you do not have to ask.
We have done our best to represent every glaze here accurately, and you should still expect your pot to look different from what is on this screen.
Our glaze tile images are digitally created. They are built to show the character of a glaze, not to be a color match.
A screen is not a printout, a printout is not a test tile, and a test tile is not a finished pot. Each step in that chain shifts what a glaze looks like, sometimes a lot.
On top of that, the pottery itself changes the result: the clay body, how thick the glaze went on, whether it was brushed, dipped or sprayed, what was layered under or over it, where the piece sat in the kiln, how hot that spot ran, how fast it cooled, what was fired next to it, and how much texture the surface had. Two pots glazed from the same jar on the same day can come out different.
Treat every image here as a starting point, and treat a test tile fired on your own clay as the real answer.