To whomever it may concern:
Fluted: like
this bowl, but at the base of a circular casserole dish instead of the top of a bowl, and half way up the wall of the dish, there's another thinner line of diagonal carvings cut into a sunken and then raised ring made in the surface.
Hard to describe, probably harder to visualize. Don't strain yourself, it's not that pretty... Yet.
I'm researching a kind of glaze that I think turns out like a matte shino glaze. It'll look really nice over a brick red claybody, I think.
I'll bake the ******** out of some casseroles this winter.