Description:
Dark ash-glazed body with multipe glass runs, and a mangenese-slipped neck, with a porcelain medallion crown and incised chevrons.
Label Text:
This masterpiece of form and design was shaped by thousands of years of ceramic innovation and pottery traditions. Mark Hewitt recognizes the influences that have molded him as an artist, from his kiln based on a centuries-old Thai model and his adaptation of Asian glazes, to the forms and decorative motifs of West Africa and the traditions of Europe and America. In his unique blend of styles, the potter graces the elegant ovoid form with a crown (or diadem), evoking royal associations. Closer examination reveals a 19th-century technique from North Carolina in which diamond-shaped pieces of glass are pressed into the semi-soft clay. The glass then melts in the firing process, creating impressions in the vessel and flowing streams of green-tinged glaze.
-Aaron Miller, Associate Curator of Visual and Material Culture, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (Sept. 2016)
Subjects:
glaze (coating by location); Porcelain; Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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