Wheel-thrown Pioneer Dark with Speckles stoneware | 4.75" diameter × 3.5" tall | Two applied tab details | Fully glazed interior | Oregon clay
This glaze has a Michigan origin story and a Pacific Northwest soul.
This planter was wheel-thrown in my Portland studio from Pioneer Dark with Speckles — a warm, iron-rich stoneware with non-toxic black glass frit speckles that push through every glaze like constellations. It's finished in Weathered Bronze, a glaze developed at the Flint Institute of Art in Michigan that fires to something luminous and unexpected — aqua and turquoise and soft chartreuse shifting across the surface like shallow water over a sandy lakebed, or the patina on a copper roof left to its own beautiful devices.
Two small rectangular tabs are applied to the thrown body — not quite functional, not purely decorative, but exactly right. They sit low and quiet against the surface, and where the glaze breaks at their edges it does something particularly lovely — deepening, shifting, catching light differently than the smooth body around them. The tabs didn't ask to be the most interesting detail on this planter. They just are.
The interior is fully glazed in the same Weathered Bronze, making this planter genuinely versatile. Use it for a plant with a grow pot nestled inside, or press it into service as a catch-all, a vessel for whatever accumulates on your best surface. It is not food safe, but it is ready for just about everything else.
These two planters are made to live together — same glaze, same clay, same Michigan origin story, just a different scale and rhythm. If the smaller one caught your eye, meet its larger sibling in the shop: the Weathered Bronze Planter — Large, wrapped in a full rhythm of tabs and every bit as opinionated.
One of a kind. Weathered Bronze fires differently on every piece — this particular patina exists only once.
Wheel-thrown Pioneer Dark with Speckles stoneware | 4.75" diameter × 3.5" tall | Two applied tab details | Fully glazed interior | Oregon clay
This glaze has a Michigan origin story and a Pacific Northwest soul.
This planter was wheel-thrown in my Portland studio from Pioneer Dark with Speckles — a warm, iron-rich stoneware with non-toxic black glass frit speckles that push through every glaze like constellations. It's finished in Weathered Bronze, a glaze developed at the Flint Institute of Art in Michigan that fires to something luminous and unexpected — aqua and turquoise and soft chartreuse shifting across the surface like shallow water over a sandy lakebed, or the patina on a copper roof left to its own beautiful devices.
Two small rectangular tabs are applied to the thrown body — not quite functional, not purely decorative, but exactly right. They sit low and quiet against the surface, and where the glaze breaks at their edges it does something particularly lovely — deepening, shifting, catching light differently than the smooth body around them. The tabs didn't ask to be the most interesting detail on this planter. They just are.
The interior is fully glazed in the same Weathered Bronze, making this planter genuinely versatile. Use it for a plant with a grow pot nestled inside, or press it into service as a catch-all, a vessel for whatever accumulates on your best surface. It is not food safe, but it is ready for just about everything else.
These two planters are made to live together — same glaze, same clay, same Michigan origin story, just a different scale and rhythm. If the smaller one caught your eye, meet its larger sibling in the shop: the Weathered Bronze Planter — Large, wrapped in a full rhythm of tabs and every bit as opinionated.
One of a kind. Weathered Bronze fires differently on every piece — this particular patina exists only once.
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