Ceramic vessel shapes

In the Predynastic Period, potters created a wide variety of ceramic vessels. One unusual type is a bowl with supports shaped like human feet. This simple, round bowl, tipped slightly forward as if to offer its contents, has two such feet solidly attached to its underside

Beauty In Every Form

Discover Hitoshi Kato's ceramic artistry at Roman and Williams Guild. Influenced by Japan's beauty and pottery traditions, each piece gives elegance & harmony.

One of a kind ceramic forms, built by hand using a coil and pinch technique. Formal explorations in shape, volume, color and composition. Mottled texture on the raw surface of each vessel are finger prints left from the pinched forming process. 12.5" tall, 12.5" diameter at widest. Handmade by Giselle Hicks in Helena, Montana. Please note that this work is final sale. No returns or exchanges.

M33, Black Ceramic Sculptural Vessel This vase is made from with stoneware clay using hand building techniques. Natural textured clay and black glaze are used. MATERIALS : Stoneware Ceramic Aysun Ay a designer and architect who working with stoneware clay bodies using hand building techniques. Her taking reference from architecture and nature, focuses on asymmetrical and curved forms.

From her studio in Paris, artist Julie Bergeron hand-builds amorphous stoneware vessels that mimic a wide array of creatures and lifeforms found in nature. Hollow ducts and pointed spines cover the surfaces of the cavernous forms, ambiguously evoking seed pods, tropical fruits like rambutan or durian, and small marine organisms. “I have fun mixing types,Continue reading "Amorphous Ceramic Vessels by Julie Bergeron Merge the Shapes and Textures of Organic Matter"

KARINA SMAGULOVA on Instagram: "The permanence of the Women Vessels is grounded in two main forms; a horizontal and a vertical curve, which mark the foundation of all the pieces from the, (now 4 years old) archive. In a world that is constantly changing, before any words have had the chance to form, clay has been a truly cherished friend."

Paul S. Briggs is an artist who primarily hand-builds clay sculptures. His pinched clay objects often recall various forms in nature, but are initially inspired purely intuitively, by Briggs’ innate response to the medium, and developed naturally according to a meditative, spiritual and philosophical process.