Gốm sứ mỹ nghệ · Fine ceramics · Unique
Bottle vase, ash glaze
Men tro — ash glaze from rice straw; here it ran thick on the shoulder where the fire laid most ash.
Phạm Văn Đức
A bottle form thrown in one piece, the neck drawn up last, glazed in the family’s ash glaze and set at the front of the kiln where the wood ash falls thickest. The glaze ran on the shoulder and thinned at the neck, as it does when the fire has its way.
For branches, for a single stem, for nothing. It is the one Đức kept back from the load.
- Materials
- White river clay, rice-straw ash glaze
- Technique
- Thrown; wood-fired
- Dimensions
- Ø 16 × 34 cm · Ø 6.3 × 13.4 in · 1.9 kg
- Edition
- Unique work · Signed and sealed on the reverse
- Made
- Bát Tràng, Gia Lâm · 2026
The making
One firing, in four movements
An ash glaze is a conversation between the potter and the fire, and the fire has the last word.
I
The form
Thrown in one piece, the neck drawn last.
II
The glaze
Rice-straw ash glaze, dipped thin.
III
The place
Set at the front of the kiln, where the ash falls.
IV
The dawn
Opened in first light; kept back from the load.
From the same village
