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​Traditional Glazed

RANDY DOUGHTY
​BENT PINE POTTERY
Pennsylvania, USA
​2024

3.25 x 9.81 x 9.81 inches
Stoneware, Glazed
Wheel Thrown
​Reduction Fired to Cone 10 (~2300ºF)

"Completely made on the wheel from a single piece of stoneware (Standard Ceramics). Shape harkens back to antique pots I've seen. The glaze is a cone 6 recipe I found that fires wonderfully at cone ten. Every firing is different with this glaze. Here it shows off its depth with a green background, gray blue above that, and small white crystals floating on top. Smooth matte surface with glossy blue pools highlighting the pot edges. Foot ring left unglazed. For tree pairing I see a deciduous or flowering tree with a taller eloquent look."

​- Randy Doughty

A B O U T   R A N D Y   D O U G H T Y

I began making pots in college. Working on the wheel and the realization that there could be fire involved had me hooked.  The early pots were functional porcelain tableware. After a friend introduced me to bonsai my pottery focus quickly changed. For almost 20 years i now i have made bonsai pots almost exclusively.

Working within the bonsai pot tradition provides the perfect framework for me to pursue my favorite parts of working with clay. The wheel and how small changes to a form can change the character of the pot. While many of the forms are similar throughout the bonsai potter generations, how the details of those forms are treated provide infinite possibilities and insight to the potters eye. 

​My versions of these familiar shapes feature graceful curves with clean and crisp lines. These tight and controlled forms are glazed with a single glaze per piece and fired in ways to promote random and serendipitous results. Each firing gives different results, and often a single piece can have multiple versions a glaze depending on the firing.  Each firing another step on the quest for the perfect pot where the form and glaze result in something bigger than I could ever plan.​

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