Knead, bend, roll, throw, twist, pound, bake, beg, weep …. just a few of the myriad manipulations at one’s disposal to innovate with clay. This amazing substance from the earth is a loyal servant of the ceramic arts. Forever challenging its creator to find the right aesthetic balance and appeal. Sometimes it only takes a slight adjustment to the form for it to transmute from ordinary to brilliant. Great pieces are sometimes born in the conceptual stage, taking shape with a sketch or just a casual idea. Other times it’s not till the final bake that vague concepts crystallize into a rewarding result. Featured below is a collection of pieces from the studio cauldron of coercion, creativity, inspiration, adaption and sublimity; selected for their originality in form, surface and design, with a mixture of both complex and simple styles, past and present.
Royal Crown Derby vase – 1882
Wig Vase by Designer Tania D’Cruz
Porcelain Cup – Ann Van Hoey, Belgium
twin handled fishes motif vase – Adrian Brough, UK
Arek Szwed figurines
Alezja Laboratory of Ceramic Arkadiusz Swede
Carved and wood fired vase – Mark Smalley
Egyptian Revival Art Deco gilt trimmed Vase with Egyptian motif – Noritake, Japan
Peacock Vase – 1920’s Art Deco
Banana Bud Vases – Jonathon Adler
Checkered wedding vase by Lydia Ponce
Graphite black on black cuadritos
Forestware by Lauren Kaplan
Cape Town – South Africa
Minimalist wheel thrown bottles
Blue Room Pottery, etsy
The Living Art Range – tripod planter
Light From Africa Foundation
Terre vernissée – Christine Zablocki and Sébastien Lopes
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Candlesticks with carved surface – Muddy Creek Pottery
Ceramic sculpture – Julia Feld
Elephant handbuilt with coils – Klaywerk Studio
‘Alien Mardi Gras’ – Ricky Maldonado
2005
Beret Storage Jar – Helen Frik, Nl
Wall Art Mosaic – ‘Steely Abstraction‘ – Lynn Adamo
Mixed media wall panel. Granite, obsidian, basalt, galena, vintage Italian and Mexican smalti, beads, Bullseye glass, aluminum, hand made ceramic coil and wire on handmade tile substrates
Wall Planter by Earth Magic with celtic knot motif
Jonathan Middlemiss, UK
Chinese Cloisonne Phoenix fung hwang Statue
Height 20 “
Biennale d’architecture 2014, Venice, Italy
Urinal (Vineta model) in neo-baroque style mixed with neo-renaissance – Ditmara Factory Czech Republic
1895
French Elchinger Mid-Century folded vase – matt and volcanic glaze – 1950’s
Potfest display 2014 – Nigel Edmondson
photo – Christine Cox – flickr
Ceramic guinea fowl – Gabrielle Lindemann
Provence Region, South of France
Gerd Rohling – Nothing For all
Gallery- piet hein eek
Contemporary ceramic sculpture – Goro Suzuki
Cream and Sugar set – ibcooper – etsy
Joelle Gervais— ‘ La balançoire’
photo Claude Lieber
‘My sculptures are unique. They are connected with the world around me, the fragile trace of an ephemeral presence, a bridge between my emotions and other people’s eyes, make an intimate view of the world. A time, a meeting, a situation, a look are my sources of inspiration.’
Neo Nouveau vase by Carol Long
Hitomi Hosono – tropical flowers are the inspiration for her carved porcelain sculptures
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Vessel with stopper – Takashi Ikura
2008
Ivana Batalo, Belgrade
Jean Paul Landreau – ‘Humanoides ‘
photo – Christine Cox – flickr
Earthenware vase, geometric shape with abstract pattern by Jenny Orchard
John Ward
Coil built stoneware vessel with black glaze and incised sgraffito decoration.
Larry Halvorsen
Lauren Gallaspy
Fabien Jouvin floral and script decorated Chinese vase
14.inch height
Hap Moore Antiques
Modern vase designs made to look like stitched leather. They are actually made from high quality porcelain – Madieke Fleuren
Silhouette Vase – Yuko Tokuda
Carved marble vase – Sonaarts
Patricia Urquiola – porcelain vases
Unlimited Edition – Pieke Bergmans – 2007
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Porcelain Cabbage bowl – Anon Pairot design studio
‘ 57 Stretch’ teapot – Robert Lawarre
Rustic woodland ceramic spoon sculpture – Jo Lucisted
Jean Baptiste and Séraphin Giordan designed ginger jar for Serves, France
Tilting Vase ‘ -Intelligent vase designed by David Sweeney begins to ‘lie down’ when it needs water, then stands again when water is added to the side spout.
‘ Tilting Vase ‘ -Intelligent vase designed by David Sweeney
Modern vases with balloon inserts. – German designer Anika Engelbrecht
Anika Engelbrecht swelling vase
The ‘Proust’ limited edition miniature armchair – hand painted ceramic ware by Alessandro Mendini, and produced by superego
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‘Hula Hoops’ vase – Giopato & Coombes – Can be split to create a wine bottle cooler
Stig Lindberg
‘Walk Streets’
A hand sculpted, hand painted stoneware vessel by Brenda Holzke
Large garden planter
Water Features Direct, AUS
Beate Anderson
Big Bull – Gambone
50’s
‘Inner Space’ – Erin-etsy
Crimson red glaze vases – Fance Frank & Eliche Guy
Philip Jackson—‘Un Ballo in Maschera’
Louis Gosselin
Hamada Shoji
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