Jack Welbourne Bottle Vase, Tenmoku

A rustic, hand thrown flower vase glazed made in Wales by studio potter Jack Welbourne, glazed with a deep black tenmoku that breaks into a contrasting orange-brown at the extremities. After training in Cardiff and Gothenburg, Sweden, Welbourne set up studio in Cardiff, where he produces wheel-thrown stoneware in red Cornish clay, gas-fired using glazes mixed in his studio (sometimes using materials dug locally, combined with potash, chalk, iron oxide and flint). Jack is inspired by the concave curvatures of neolithic Chinese and early Korean clayware. 8.5cm diameter, 10.5 across the handles, 14.5cm tall with a 3cm mouth, approximately.