A rounded, orb-like vessel thrown in stoneware, finished in a heavily textured slate-blue and white glaze that crawls and fissures across the surface. The glaze pulls apart during firing into a dense network of branching, vein-like cracks radiating down from the rim, breaking into a mottled, pitted texture toward the base — a classic crawling/matte effect driven by high surface tension and shrinkage in the glaze layer during cooling. The exposed dark clay body shows through at the crawl lines and around the foot, where the glaze recedes to reveal the raw stoneware beneath. A faint violet-blue break appears near the shoulder, likely a secondary oxide reacting differently under variable heat work in that zone of the kiln.
A rounded, orb-like vessel thrown in stoneware, finished in a heavily textured slate-blue and white glaze that crawls and fissures across the surface. The glaze pulls apart during firing into a dense network of branching, vein-like cracks radiating down from the rim, breaking into a mottled, pitted texture toward the base — a classic crawling/matte effect driven by high surface tension and shrinkage in the glaze layer during cooling. The exposed dark clay body shows through at the crawl lines and around the foot, where the glaze recedes to reveal the raw stoneware beneath. A faint violet-blue break appears near the shoulder, likely a secondary oxide reacting differently under variable heat work in that zone of the kiln.
