Richard Hirsch Ceramic Ceremonial Vessel #10, Tripod Vessels Collection, 1994

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Tripod Vessels Collection, Round Series Ceremonial Vessel #12 is raku-fired, hand built and hand sc...

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Ceramic Ceremonial Tripod Vessel is raku-fired, hand built and hand sculptured. Each piece is uniqu...

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Ceremonial Cup #34 is part of his Tripod Vessels collection. It’s hand sculptured clay, multi-fire...

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Tripod Vessels Collection, Coper-Metti Series Vessel and Stand #39 and #40 are raku-fired, hand built and hand sculptured. Each ...

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's "Tripod Vessels Collection, Ceremonial Cup #1B" is bronze with polychromed patinas. It was fabrica...

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Mortar and Glass Pestle Sculpture #10 was assembled in 2004. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay with black glaze, raku patinas and hot blown glass. The following is an excerpt from the book "With Fire: Richard Hirsch, A Life Between Chance and Design" written by Scott Meyer...

Ceramic Vessel Sculptures: Biomorphic, Ceramic Organic Shapes These ceramic, biomorphic sculptures were formed organically with porcelain clay, the pieces morphed from a vessel into...

Inspired by Mid-Century Modern design, the pierced collection is wheel thrown and hand pierced stoneware with a satin glaze. Small holes are created when the clay is still wet and th...

This ceramic organic piece was made with slab pieces I slowly formed, dried then manipulated to create this shape. I then added silica sand to obtain a more textured surface, it was ...

Title: Perianth 07 Year: 2021 Freeform ceramic sculpture made from a blend of porcelaneous and stoneware clays hand-collected by the artist in Minnesota. Its surface is hand-polished with diamond sandpaper to render a matte finish. Signed with the artist’s mark along the interior rim. Each piece is original and one of a kind. The forms in this collection are influenced by botanical morphology - specifically, the ‘perianth’ or floral envelope, whose petals serve to protect the most sensitive part of the plant before the eventual dispersal of the fruit’s seed. Powell’s sculptures seek to evoke a similar feeling of comfort and protection, serving as reminders of another time, both past and future, when one's family is close and the world feels safe, offering an escape from the ephemerality of the present which can leave one feeling vulnerable and exposed. The Perianth series functions both as a personal etiology for the artist and as a broader exploration of the universal themes of nostalgia, sentimentality, and familial memory In terms of process, Powell is interested in manipulating material into something it essentially is not - shaping crude, raw clay, still studded with naturally occurring sands and stones, into incredibly delicate forms. The resulting pieces are light and elegant — impossibly thin and balanced in surprising ways. Each sculpture’s surface, riddled with scrapes and craters, is astonishingly soft and sensuous to the touch and each piece feels precious in such a finessed and attenuated state. This concept of defied expectations extends beyond the physical properties of the work in that Powell is also investigating the mutability of perception, specifically in terms of Perianth’s overarching nostalgia and memory themes - - the present is intimidating in its authenticity, with no space for embellishment or fantasy, while memories of, and the subsequent yearning for, an era, place or person can become nebulous and fictionalized with distance and time. In this way, the works in this series act as physical manifestations of the unanticipated and misremembered. - - - - - - - - - - - - ABOUT THE ARTIST: Zoë Powell...

Title: Perianth 06 Year: 2021 Freeform ceramic sculpture made from a blend of high-iron stoneware clays hand-collected by the artist in Minnesota. Its surface is hand-polished with ...

Great sample of one most important designers of the 20th century, Glazed ceramic, Gio Ponti, made for Richard Ginori and marked S Christoforo, Milano.