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Bud Vase

£62

For one flower, or one branch. A dramatic oxblood glaze on a quiet little form.

Form
Bud Vase
Glaze
Oxblood
Clay
Porcelain
Dimensions
H 19 · Ø 9 cm
Reserve or commission

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 bud vase is an exercise in restraint — a small bulb of a body and a neck narrow enough to hold a single stem upright. It asks almost nothing of the flower and gives it a stage.

We glaze these in oxblood, a copper-red that’s genuinely difficult to fire: it only develops its deep blood-red in a reduction atmosphere, and the colour shifts from bottle to bottle depending on exactly where it sat in the kiln. This one came out with a dark, glassy pool at the base and a lighter oxidised blush near the rim.