∵∴∵Unwashed pear and apple wood-ash on sandy red stoneware∵∴∵

After a lot of experimentation with glaze recipes I came to really love the unpredictability of unwashed ash-glazes and how their natural fluxes allowed for some really beautiful interactions in contrast with darker burning clay-bodies such as buff red stonewares. These vessels were fired up to 1260°C in an oxidative atmosphere.

While the general form of these vessels are more or less my own creative flare, their silhouette mirrors that of the tripartite forms associated with earlier Mesolithic Ertebølle culture (5400 BCE) and Pitted ware culture (3500 BCE) vessels, alongside collared vessels of later Neolithic groups of Northwestern Europe.

The decorative markings can be similarly observed across Mesolithic art objects, and is commonly associated with Ertebølle material culture such as their ceramic technology, amber jewellery, bone/atler tools and oars.

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