This piece spent a very long time on the seabed. Beneath the crust you can just make out the original form, a small storage bottle with a high rounded shoulder tapering to a narrow foot, but the surface has been entirely rewritten by the water: oyster shell fused flat against the body, the pale plates of barnacles, and everywhere the fine curled tubes of calcareous worms, laid down one over another across decades. Dark manganese staining runs where the vessel lay against the sediment. It is not really a pot any more so much as a record of what happened to it, and there is nothing you could make that would look like this.

Features

• Style Type: Wabi-sabi, Primitive
• Main Colours: Bone, ochre, umber
• Finish Type: Marine encrustation, heavily weathered
• Perfect For: A shelf where it can be looked at closely, or grouped with other found objects.

Product Details

• Key Materials: Ceramic with natural marine encrustation
• Size: W 12cm x D 6cm x H 20cm
• Age: Antique

After Care

• Handle gently; the encrustation is fragile and will shed if knocked. Dust with a soft dry brush only — do not wash. Not watertight.