10,000 POT!
It is hard to believe, but we
have just uploaded the 10,000th pot on our website and it could not
be more appropriate –a Walter Keeler mug. Walter is an elder statesman of
studio pottery and I am delighted that one of his pieces marks this milestone.
We have shown his work for a number of years and had innumerable conversations with visitors to the gallery about this supreme craftsman.
We have shown his work for a number of years and had innumerable conversations with visitors to the gallery about this supreme craftsman.
Then why a humble mug, I here you
cry? Well, this is what fate has determined should be number 10,000. It is not
just a mug. It is a vessel that embraces all of the qualities that so many of
us admire in Walter’s work. It is elegantly designed and beautifully
proportioned – sitting so well in the hand. The lustrous ink wash glaze
emphasises the shape and the volume of the pot. His signature mark is the only
decoration. This is a simple mug – but as the great Hamada once said in response to a comment by one of his students about the
simplicity of a particular pot – there is nothing simple about it at all.
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| Some of latest collection in The Gallery- includes "THE MUG" |
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