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​O V A L
​Traditional Glazed

RANDY DOUGHTY
​BENT PINE POTTERY
Pennsylvania, USA
​2025

3.68 x 15.88 x 13.06 inches
Standard Ceramics Stoneware, Glazed
Wheel Thrown and Altered
​Reduction Fired to Cone 10 (~2300ºF)

"Created from wheel thrown bottomless rings for the walls and the feet and a rolled slab for the bottom. Rings were altered and assembled when pieces dried enough to work. The ends of the feet were freehand cut. Glazed with a found cone 6 glaze recipe (mixed myself) that fires really well at cone ten. Firing this glaze in a reduction atmosphere (lower oxygen) produces what seems like endless possibilities. Every firing produces slightly different results all with loads of depth.

On this pot there is a glossy green blue background with grayish blue crystal matte floating on the top. Small white crystals on the surface in sections. Tree pairing would be a strong deciduous with leave color, flowers or fall foliage that compliments the glaze color and business."

​- 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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