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

After Experimenting with glaze recipes, the unpredictability of unwashed ash-glazes due to their natural fluxes becamse a personal favourite as it allowed for some really beautiful interactions when combined with darker burning clay-bodies (such as buff red stonewares). These vessels were fired up to 1260°C in an oxidative atmosphere.

While the form of these vessels are my own design, their profile is influenced by the tripartite shaped pottery associated with earlier Mesolithic Ertebølle culture (5400 BCE) and Pitted ware culture (3500 BCE), alongside collared vessels of later Neolithic groups of Northwestern Europe.

The decorative markings can be similarly observed across Mesolithic art objects, also linked to Ertebølle material culture like their ceramic technology, amber jewellery, bone/atler tools and oars.

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