A rough, tapered vessel photographed twice: once lying down, where the crusted body glints pewter and bronze in full metallic sheen, and once upright on the workbench, where raking light runs a wet-looking gloss over the same crust. The rim is torn rather than trimmed; a few pale patches sit near the foot. The store files it under vases; the shape reads handbuilt through and through.
Is the surface actually metallic? It’s salt-fired: the pewter-bronze glints across the crust are what the salt firing left, wet-looking where the light rakes it. Piece 1,718 of 10,000, listed at $17.18.
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