Contemporary Ceramic Vasetto Scaramantico Superstitious Little Jar

Ugo La Pietra "Inner strength" vase #6 From the "Inner strength" collection, ceramics dedicated to the theme of "virility". "Inner strength" alluding to powerful musculature that gives expression to the forms, highlighted by the black, compact, glossy surfaces that recall an archaic wrestler's skin gleaming with perspiration. Physical and emotive energy capable of changing the balance of traditional vase shapes, accompanied by votive objects...

Ugo La Pietra "Inner strength" vase #5 From the "Inner strength" collection, ceramics dedicated to the theme of "virility". "Inner strength" alluding to powerful musculature that gives expression to the forms, highlighted by the black, compact, glossy surfaces that recall an archaic wrestler's skin gleaming with perspiration. Physical and emotive energy capable of changing the balance of traditional vase shapes, accompanied by votive objects...

Ugo La Pietra "Inner strength" vase #9 From the "Inner strength" collection, ceramics dedicated to the theme of "virility". "Inner strength" alluding to powerful musculature that gives expression to the forms, highlighted by the black, compact, glossy surfaces that recall an archaic wrestler's skin gleaming with perspiration. Physical and emotive energy capable of changing the balance of traditional vase shapes, accompanied by votive objects...

Ugo La Pietra "Inner strength" vase #8 From the "Inner strength" collection, ceramics dedicated to the theme of "virility". "Inner strength" alluding to powerful musculature that gives expression to the forms, highlighted by the black, compact, glossy surfaces that recall an archaic wrestler's skin gleaming with perspiration. Physical and emotive energy capable of changing the balance of traditional vase...

A massive stoneware tsubo floor jar created by Japanese contemporary ceramic artist Kai Tsujimura (1976-). The heavy jar with its impressive volume was made in the tradition of Iga ware with local coarse sandy clay that turned reddish after the firing. It took its shape from heavy medieval storage jars with a wide-open mouth. For a nearly identical form, see an Echizen jar from Heian period (794–1185) in the collection of MET (Accession Number: 1977.261). The surface showcases scattered white crystalized feldspars and a green vitrified ash glaze cascade down the body (known as biidoro in Japanese - after the Portuguese word for glass vidoro). These is a globular shape impressed on the jar. It is a signature practice of the Tsujimura potter family by stacking bowls between the pieces in the kiln during the firing, resulting in an accidental but iconic aethetic (Kai and Yui Tsujimura...

Glazed ceramic jar / pot, black. In my organic, contemporary, vintage and mid-century modern aesthetic.

This is a handmade rare Swedish Art Deco ceramic jar in green and gold luster glaze hand decorated with gold made by the Swedish ceramic artist Josef Ekberg. He was one of Sweden's T...

A large Japanese lidded ceramic jar from the kiln of Onda Yaki, circa 2010. The stoneware jar impresses the viewer with a robust bulbous form. Its black body is nearly unglazed but exuberantly splashed with strokes of slip glazes of white, yellow and blue. The visual effect is wonderful that it appears traditional and contemporary at the same time. The tri-color glaze calls to mind the San-Cai from Chinese Tang dynasty, yet the application is akin to abstract painting on canvas. Onda Yaki also spelled as Onta Yaki also spelled Onta, is a type of Japanese pottery produced in and around the village of Onta in Oita Prefecture in Kyushu Island. It was founded in 1705. Closely associated with Mingei folk art, Onda ware was inscribed by the national government in 1995 as an Intangible Cultural Property Background from Pucker Gallery where the jar was exibited and purchased. "In his search for true folk pottery, the Japanese philosopher Soetsu Yanagi...