Ember Vessel
A tall vase carrying three days of wood smoke, drifting ash, and open flame on its skin.
Overview
Thrown by hand,
glazed by fire
This vase rode out a 72-hour firing in our wood kiln, where flying ash landed on its shoulder and fused into an olive-and-rust skin that no firing ever repeats twice.
Ione Kestrel throws it from coarse grogged clay at 46 centimeters tall — sized for foyers, hearths, and plinths. Three slow weeks of drying come first, so the walls survive the climb to temperature.
- Clay bodyGrogged stoneware
- GlazeNatural ash, unapplied
- FiringWood kiln, 72 hours
- Dimensions46 × 24 cm
- Year2025
- AvailabilityCommission only
The making
A three-day watch
A wood kiln is tended, not programmed. Somebody feeds it split oak every twelve minutes, day and night, judging flame color and test rings until instinct says the pots are ready.
- Thrown in two sections and joined at leather-hard
- Slow-dried 21 days to prevent cracking
- Stoked with split oak to 1,300°C
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