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American Raku Pottery Vessel by Paul Soldner
$3,600
£2,676.19
€3,132.95
CA$5,034.50
A$5,621.56
CHF 2,932.36
MX$69,125.40
NOK 37,010
SEK 34,843.61
DKK 23,371.82
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A modern pottery vessel by American potter Paul Soldner (1921-2011) circa 1960s. Paul Soldner is renowned for his dedication to develop and further Raku firing in American pottery field. Inspired by Japanese Raku ware, he used low temperature firing process for his hand-built pieces from a potter's wheel or slab-building and often a combination of both.
The vessel on offer is a great example of his modern Raku ware, full of free-spirit and random kiln occurrences. In a form of a large urn, the vessel was wheel thrown but enhanced by hand shaping and molding to assume its organic form with irregular features. The top opening was molded into a mysterious sculptural orifice. The lower body was sharply scraped down to a tapering base. Unglazed, the surface displays a changing hue with mottled yellow, grey and splashed orange spots on the background that features subtle geometrical patterns randomly pressed with a stamp or patterned spatula.
Next to the opening on top, there is an artist's petal stamp that was used around 1960s.
- Creator:Paul Soldner (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Diameter: 13.5 in (34.29 cm)
- Style:Organic Modern (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:1960-80s
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. Overall light wear and scattered rubbings. Surface irregularity in terms of color and textures, likely from making process.
- Seller Location:Atlanta, GA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU945037984182
Paul Soldner
After studying under Peter Voulkos at the Los Angeles County Art Institute, Denver native Paul Soldner (1921–2011) became a pottery professor there in the 1960s, when the revolutionary California Clay Movement took root.
Soldner pioneered American-style raku firing methods, experimental updates of the centuries-old Japanese process, which involve pulling red-hot sculptures out of the kiln to be bathed in smoke or dipped in cold water, resulting in beautifully frazzled glazes.
“These new firing and post-firing reduction methods often led to spontaneous, unpredictable and quite wonderful results,” says Greg Nielson, of Dwell Floor Five, in Studio City, California.
Soldner’s raku vases, for instance, with their charred surfaces, seem to smile humbly through the scars of their past adversity.
Alongside the likes of Toshiko Takaezu, Soldner innovated chunky, funky ceramics in the mid-century and beyond. He is one Voulkos student at whom enthusiasts should take a serious look, advises dealer Jayson Lawfer.
The owner of The Nevica Project, a gallery with venues in Chicago and Kansas City, Lawfer explains that Soldner “was a master of raku and was credited with bringing the historic Asian technique to the U.S.” He adds that “Soldner used simple techniques of throwing pottery on the wheel, but to make his sculptural forms more interesting, he also pressed burlap into the clay and stepped on it to give it different textures."
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