PLINTH® · NO. 047
  1. §01 This week’s object
  2. §02 The curator’s note
  3. §03 Object record
  4. §04 Index of past lots
  5. §05 Care, cover, return
  6. §06 Next — lot 048
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NO. 047 — THIS WEEK

Ash-glazed stoneware ewer on a plaster plinth, side profile with the handle to the right

Ash-glazed ewer, no. 047

€ 1,240 1 OF 1 · AVAILABLE

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One object a week. Documented like a museum, priced like a shop.

MAKER
Varrow Point kiln
MATERIAL
Stoneware, wood-fired ash glaze
SIZE
H 31 × W 19 × D 16 cm
ORIGIN
West coast workshop
CONDITION
Stable, as fired
EDITION
1 of 1 · made 2009

§02NOTE4 MIN · 09.10.2026

  1. [1] Wood ash melts at the hottest side of the kiln first. The run stops where the flame turned.
  2. [2] Grit is the sand the pot stood on for four days. It stays.

The curator’s note

This ewer spent four days in a wood kiln on the west coast in 2009. Nobody glazed the shoulder by hand — the grey-green you see is ash from the firewood, carried on the flame and melted onto the clay. It ran where the heat was strongest and stopped where it wasn’t.[1]

Turn it slowly. At about 120° the run thins to almost nothing; at 180° the clay shows its iron, a warm brown that darkens near the foot. The handle was pulled, not cast, and it is very slightly off the vertical. We left that in the record because it is the most honest thing about the piece.

The foot ring still carries a few grains of kiln sand, fused as fired.[2] There is one small skip in the glaze to the right of the handle, four millimetres long. It is not damage; it is where a neighbouring pot shadowed the ash.

It pours cleanly. It is also perfectly content to hold nothing on a shelf. We photographed it at every ten degrees so you can decide which side faces the room.

FIG. 1 · FOOT RING
FIG. 2 · SPOUT LIP
FIG. 3 · GLAZE RUN

§03RECORDLOT 047 · 11 FIELDS

Object record

DIMENSIONS
H 31 × W 19 × D 16 cm
WEIGHT
1.84 kg
BODY
Iron-rich stoneware
GLAZE
Wood ash, natural run
FIRING
Wood kiln, 4 days, c. 1300 °C
MAKER
Varrow Point kiln (fictional)
MADE
2009
CONDITION
  • Stable. Kiln grit fused at foot ring, as fired.
  • One glaze skip, 4 mm, right of handle.
  • No repairs, no losses.
PROVENANCE
Provenance of lot 047
2009Made and fired at Varrow Point
2014Private collection, coast
2026Consigned to Plinth
DOCUMENTED ANGLES
0° 90° 180° 270° TURNS THE OBJECT ABOVE

§04INDEX12 LOTS

Index of past lots

12 LOTS · 10 SOLD · 1 ON HOLD · 1 AVAILABLE

  1. MATERIAL
    Hand-blown smoked glass
    ORIGIN
    Northern Europe
    YEAR
    c. 1960
    SIZE
    H 27 × Ø 11 cm
    STATUS
    Sold

    This one has found a home.

  2. MATERIAL
    Hammered pewter
    ORIGIN
    Low Countries
    YEAR
    c. 1890
    SIZE
    H 12 × Ø 8 cm
    STATUS
    Sold

    This one has found a home.

  3. MATERIAL
    Stoneware, iron glaze
    ORIGIN
    Western Japan
    YEAR
    2011
    SIZE
    H 8 × Ø 13 cm
    STATUS
    Sold

    This one has found a home.

  4. MATERIAL
    Spun copper, tinned inside
    ORIGIN
    Central Europe
    YEAR
    c. 1930
    SIZE
    H 9 × Ø 24 cm
    STATUS
    On hold

    Held for a returning buyer until Sunday.

  5. MATERIAL
    Porcelain, celadon glaze
    ORIGIN
    Southern Korea
    YEAR
    2019
    SIZE
    H 22 × Ø 18 cm
    STATUS
    Sold

    This one has found a home.

  6. MATERIAL
    Cast bronze, unpolished
    ORIGIN
    Himalayan foothills
    YEAR
    c. 1950
    SIZE
    H 14 × Ø 10 cm
    STATUS
    Sold

    This one has found a home.

  7. MATERIAL
    Green-tint blown glass
    ORIGIN
    Southern France
    YEAR
    c. 1900
    SIZE
    H 19 × Ø 7 cm
    STATUS
    Sold

    This one has found a home.

  8. MATERIAL
    Salt-glazed stoneware
    ORIGIN
    Rhineland
    YEAR
    c. 1870
    SIZE
    H 34 × Ø 21 cm
    STATUS
    Sold

    This one has found a home.

  9. MATERIAL
    Brass, blackened patina
    ORIGIN
    Northern Italy
    YEAR
    1970
    SIZE
    H 26 × Ø 12 cm
    STATUS
    Sold

    This one has found a home.

  10. MATERIAL
    Thrown porcelain, clear glaze
    ORIGIN
    Denmark
    YEAR
    1984
    SIZE
    H 24 × Ø 9 cm
    STATUS
    Available

    Still with us. Ask about lot 037.

  11. MATERIAL
    Optic-blown glass, pair
    ORIGIN
    Venetian lagoon
    YEAR
    c. 1955
    SIZE
    H 10 × Ø 7 cm, each
    STATUS
    Sold

    This one has found a home.

  12. MATERIAL
    Stoneware, ash glaze
    ORIGIN
    Southern Korea
    YEAR
    2008
    SIZE
    H 21 × Ø 12 cm
    STATUS
    Sold

    This one has found a home.

§05CARE3 TERMS

Care, cover, return

  • SHIPPING

    Crated in our studio. 5–9 days, tracked, signed for.

  • COVER

    Insured door to door at the price you paid.

  • RETURN

    14 days. We send a condition report both ways.

§06NEXTOPENS THU 15 OCT · 10:00 KST

Lot 048 opens Thursday, 10:00 KST

We don’t say what it is until then.

ON THE LIST — WE WRITE ONCE, THURSDAY 09:55. (DEMO — NOTHING IS SENT)