Wheel-thrown Pioneer Dark with Speckles stoneware | 5.5" diameter × 4" tall | Multiple applied tab details | Fully glazed interior | Oregon clay
The smaller one whispers. This one has a point of view.
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 the glaze like a night sky through cloud cover. It's finished in Weathered Bronze, a glaze developed at the Flint Institute of Art in Michigan that fires here to luminous aqua and turquoise with soft chartreuse undertones — the color of shallow water over sand, of copper left to become something better than it started.
Where the smaller Weathered Bronze Planter carries two quiet tabs, this one wraps the entire body in a rhythm of applied rectangular tabs that catch the eye and hold it. Architectural. Deliberate. Each tab edge is where the real magic happens — the glaze breaks there, shifting from aqua to warm gold in a line so precise it looks drawn rather than fired. It is not drawn. It is just what this glaze does when it meets an edge, and it is very good at it.
At 5.5" wide and 4" tall this is a serious planter with serious presence — generous enough for a statement plant, distinctive enough to earn its place on any surface it lands on. The fully glazed interior makes it genuinely versatile: use it for a plant with a grow pot nestled inside, or press it into service as a vessel for whatever your best surface deserves. Not food safe, but ready for just about everything else.
These two planters are made to live together — same glaze, same clay, same Michigan origin story, different scale and rhythm. Collect both and let them have a conversation.
One of a kind. Weathered Bronze fires differently on every piece — this particular patina, these particular edges, exist only once.
Wheel-thrown Pioneer Dark with Speckles stoneware | 5.5" diameter × 4" tall | Multiple applied tab details | Fully glazed interior | Oregon clay
The smaller one whispers. This one has a point of view.
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 the glaze like a night sky through cloud cover. It's finished in Weathered Bronze, a glaze developed at the Flint Institute of Art in Michigan that fires here to luminous aqua and turquoise with soft chartreuse undertones — the color of shallow water over sand, of copper left to become something better than it started.
Where the smaller Weathered Bronze Planter carries two quiet tabs, this one wraps the entire body in a rhythm of applied rectangular tabs that catch the eye and hold it. Architectural. Deliberate. Each tab edge is where the real magic happens — the glaze breaks there, shifting from aqua to warm gold in a line so precise it looks drawn rather than fired. It is not drawn. It is just what this glaze does when it meets an edge, and it is very good at it.
At 5.5" wide and 4" tall this is a serious planter with serious presence — generous enough for a statement plant, distinctive enough to earn its place on any surface it lands on. The fully glazed interior makes it genuinely versatile: use it for a plant with a grow pot nestled inside, or press it into service as a vessel for whatever your best surface deserves. Not food safe, but ready for just about everything else.
These two planters are made to live together — same glaze, same clay, same Michigan origin story, different scale and rhythm. Collect both and let them have a conversation.
One of a kind. Weathered Bronze fires differently on every piece — this particular patina, these particular edges, exist only once.
