Blown Glass Ceramics

A pair of stunning table lamps in colourful blown opaline glass designed by Tamara Aladin, and manufactured by Riihimäen lasi Oy in Finland between 1975-1976. Both lamps are in very ...

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Mortar and Glass Pestle Sculpture #23 was assembled in 2006. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay with low fire slips and glazes, 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...

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...

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Mortar and Glass Pestle Sculpture #4 was assembled in 2020. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay, gold enamel paint, black and ...

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Mortar and Glass Pestle Sculpture #1 was assembled in 2007. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay with green and black watermelon glaze, raku rust patina and hot blown glass. Two separate pieces of wood fired stoneware are assembled with a third piece -- a hot blown glass pestle. "The glass "masher" is lightly sand-blasted, suggesting opacity but yielding subtle light penetration, the perfect foil for Hirsch’s heavy clay concavities. Conceptually, Hirsch enjoys the compatibility of the two heat-driven materials, and the alchemical issues with shared chemistry seems right for themes involving vessels and raw geologic age." This three piece sculpture...

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Altar bowl with blown glass ladle #5 was assembled in 2007. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay with low fire slips and glazes, black glaze, enamel polychrome paint, raku green patina and hot blown glass. In the book "With Fire: Richard Hirsch, A Life Between Chance and Design" Scott Meyer said; "As Hirsch's work progressed over the years, it would be a mistake to portray these advances as chronological. In fact, items found provocative would be added to the roster of possibility. The vessel might change in character with the deep interior space of a mortar becoming the shallow concavity of a Japanese, stone Tsubi basin or natural geode form. The corresponding implement might change from bulbous pestle to delicate ladle, alluding to the ceremonial cleansing for participants in the Tea Ceremony. In this sense, the proximity of these objects to their implied ceremonial use was similar to that which traditional Raku bowls...

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Altar Bowl with Blown Glass Ladle Sculpture #3 was assembled in 2020. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay, gold enamel paint, black and white glazes with hot blown glass. In the book "With Fire: Richard Hirsch, A Life Between Chance and Design" Scott Meyer said; "As Hirsch's work progressed over the years, it would be a mistake to portray these advances as chronological. In fact, items found provocative would be added to the roster of possibility. The vessel might change in character with the deep interior space of a mortar becoming the shallow concavity of a Japanese, stone Tsubi basin or natural geode form. The corresponding implement might change from bulbous pestle to delicate ladle, alluding to the ceremonial cleansing for participants in the Tea Ceremony. In this sense, the proximity of these objects to their implied ceremonial use was similar to that which traditional Raku bowls...

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Mortar and Glass Pestle Sculpture #1 was assembled in 2020. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay, gold enamel paint, black and ...

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Mortar and Glass Pestle Sculpture #2 was assembled in 2020. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay, gold enamel paint, black and ...

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Mortar and Glass Pestle Sculpture was assembled in 2009. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay with red and black glazes, raku patinas and a hot blown glass pestle. The following is an excerpt from the book "With Fire: Richard Hirsch, A Life Between Chance and Design" written by Scott Meyer...

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Mortar and Glass Pestle Sculpture #5 was assembled in 2020. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay, gold enamel paint, black and ...