Handled Vase
Handled Vase
Wheel-thrown in speckled stoneware, hand-painted with porcelain slip and underglaze decoration, glaze-fired to 1250°C, then overpainted with 24 carat gold lustre and fired again at 780°C.
A generous medium vase — happy with a sprawling bunch of sweet peas, a full-headed cluster of dahlias or roses, or your average market bunch.
As with all handmade work, each piece is entirely its own: small variations and gentle imperfections are part of the process, not in spite of it. Where the glaze sits thicker, you may notice some natural crazing over time.
My influences are broad — a cumulative love of the history of ceramics: 12th–17th century Persian painted pottery, Iznik Ottoman ceramics, Imari ware, Delft ware, the forms and traditions of British studio and medieval pottery. A magpie's hoard. What connects them, I think, is a love of the handmade mark — the evidence that someone, somewhere, made something alive with their hands.
This piece's design was predominantly influenced by a 17th-century Delft flower brick, itself influenced by 16th/17th-century Japanese exports to Europe.
Care: Handwash only.
Dimensions: 25cm H × 21cm W
