For large clay items most of the bulk is made of non-clay materials, such as tin foil.  General shapes and non-detailed areas are fleshed out fully with your base material before clay is added.

Clay was then applied over the base.  As this is a simple bowl design there are no special details used and while some care was kept to make it uniform it was important that it retained the look of a hand-made and non-perfect item.

The clay was then baked and paint applied on the cooled result.  While a darker clay could have been used to not paint a clay-like color oven-baked clays tend to show signs of heat discoloration.  The pattern was an abstract design with no distinct reference.

The bowl was filled with filler topped with super glue to give the illusion of fluid and then painted.  Berries and fruit were sourced from floral arrangements and placed before the superglue so fluid could "flow" over them.

The final paint job was applied, along with a gloss finish on all items.  Grit was also lightly sprinkled across the berries and top to simulate various spices along with drops of essential oil oranges and a cinnamon stick to provide the flavor.