R O U N D E D
​R E C T A N G L E
​Traditional Glazed

RANDY DOUGHTY
​BENT PINE POTTERY
Pennsylvania, USA
​2024

3.12 x 13.25 x 11.69 inches
Standard Ceramics Stoneware, Glaze Mix
Wheel Thrown, Slab Bottom
Reduction Fired, Cone 10 (~2300ºF)

"This rectangle started its life as a round ring for the walls and a rolled slab. After a bit of drying the walls are altered to this rectangular shape and attached to the slab. The feet which also started as a thrown bottomless ring are attached, and the end details were cut free hand.

Glaze is a found recipe for a blue glaze. I manage to mess up the mixing of a new batch of blue and ended up with this pink and green glaze. Testing is being done to figure out what i did and reproduce this glaze version.

Pot was fired to cone ten in a gas kiln with a reduction atmosphere. The kilns effect on the glaze produced the variations in color and textures (dry matte pink and satin green). With the colors and shape of this pot I see a flowering tree with a strong trunk planted in here. An Azalea comes first to my mind."

​- 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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