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Heart-shaped vessel

Heart-shaped vessel

This porcelain piece is a classical, heart-shaped vase. It is such an old and universal form with examples in museums around the world. Tom Kemp has 'written' a set of interconnecting strokes with black underglaze in the form of a pencil. Each stroke involves modulation of pressure so that it is more dense in the middle, tailing off at the end. It is a 'text' without language in which the more-or-less vertical strokes interfere with the horizontal throwing rings of the vessel.

Glaze, Porcelain, Vase, Holsworthy, United Kingdom


Type

Vase

CRAFTED BY

Tom Kemp

Tom unites ceramics and ancient calligraphy

OTHER GLAZE, PORCELAIN VASE