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Cobalt Bottle
A round belly and a long collared neck. The cobalt runs deep at the shoulder where the glaze gathers.
- Form
- Bottle
- Glaze
- Cobalt
- Clay
- Stoneware
- Dimensions
- H 26 · Ø 13 cm
One of a kind. Email to reserve, or ask about a piece in this form and glaze — most things can be thrown again.
About this piece
A bottle is really two throwing problems stacked on top of each other: a full, round belly, then a narrow neck collared in from it without collapsing the shoulder. The neck is thrown almost closed and opened just enough to take a single stem.
Cobalt is the most unforgiving glaze we use — it shows every drip and thumbprint — so the surface has to be clean before it goes on. Where the glaze gathers at the shoulder it fires almost black; up the neck it thins to a bright sky blue.