Matthias Merkel Hess, Buckery, porcelain 

“At first, the work seems merely clever, a bit coy. It graduates quickly into a smarter form of charm, a knowing contribution to the canon of shape-shifting surrealism. Pseudo-functional sculpture, the pieces nod to clay’s old confinement to the ghetto of useful craft, but they also bring to mind some of the oldest and most treasured relics of humankind, vessels for carrying water, storing grain. Merkel Hess has taken the new, plastic, mass-produced, cheap versions of those containers and made them double back into something semi-precious, handmade. He’s endowed the generic and uniform with character, irregular grace and a sense of humor. Even his price list is provocative and amusing. (Leah Ollman)

David Gilbaugh: Racemosa, 2011, sculpted teapot, 4”(W) x 11”(H) x 8”(D), hand-built slab, B-mix stoneware paper clay with grog, cone 10 reduction, black stain brushed in crevices, water washed iron and rutile stain
Permanent collection of the American Museum of Ceramic Arts

Clay Potter

An array of pottery pieces by Stig Lindberg.

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Mexican Folk Art

Detail from an amazing “Tree of Life” that depicts the invention of the famous Mole Poblano and it’s culinary history. Popular Arts Museum of Mexico City

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Pottery of Lalejin-Hamedan, Iran

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Yangshao Culture Vases

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spurples:

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egg shell container (via black_eyes)

Yangshao Culture Vases

Women carrying water back to their camp on a Gujarat farm