HAND-SPUN CERMAIC VESSEL

A vessel that looks pulled from the earth rather than made by hand. Wide, low, and disc-like in form — the body pressed flat and wide, sitting close to the ground with a small, deliberate opening at the crown. The surface is where everything happens: a volcanic crater glaze in deep graphite and burnished copper, bubbled and pitted across the entire skin as though the piece cooled mid-eruption. No two points on the surface are alike.

The glaze transitions from near-black at the shoulder to a warm terracotta at the base, where the raw clay body bleeds through beneath the craters. It is an extraordinarily alive surface — part geology, part alchemy. A floor piece, a shelf object, a conversation that starts itself. Signed work by one of Belgium's most distinctive studio potters.

KOEN GHESQUIERE
BELGIUM 
9½" x 5½"