Provencal Ginkgo - Large handmade bowl with sgraffito drawings and added strap handles with a Ginkgo leaf motif. Free shipping US.

Provencal Ginkgo is large handmade ceramic pottery bowl featureing intricate sgraffito drawings and unique strap handles. She is meticulously slip painted and oxide stained in rich rust oranges and soft celadon yellows, creating a warm and inviting aesthetic. Perfect for fruit, various breads, or simply displayed as a beautiful centerpiece, this bowl will bring the beauty of nature into your home. Shipped free within the US. 
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FREE SHIPPING WITHIN UNITED STATES.

The Stats:
Length x Width x Height
11 1/8" x 9 7/8" x 4 1/2"

Weight
2lbs 0.4 oz

Height at Handle roughly 5 1/8" - Handles are slightly different heights, but that's part of its charm!

All my bowls are food safe unless otherwise noted. This one is large. Signed and dated. It will come carefully packed and shipped insured. 

Entirely hand fabricated with added handles and squared foot.

**If you wish to make installment payments please contact me for instructions.

**Provencal Ginkgo will come to you shipped via USPS Mail, insured, and carefully packaged. Shipping and insurance are FREE for delivery within the United States. 

I love to ship internationally and have done so many times. Please contact me if you require overseas shipment. I will get a quote for you of the fees that would be involved.

Fees such as custom or VAT taxes may be charged and would be payable to the appropriate agency upon delivery. It is the responsibility of the individual to research such fees. I have no way to research them or collect for them. 

**You may have noticed that I am not a “production potter”. I don't make the same thing over and over again. There is nothing wrong in doing that, it is just not where my interests lay.

I am what is termed a “studio potter”. Among others, I enjoy working with bowl forms in their various guises. No two of my pieces are the same, even when working on a similar theme. It can take upwards of a week for me to make one piece. Any given piece may take several visits to the kiln before I get the color development that I want. I tend to treat each object that I make as an individual, rather than a “thing”. I only work with materials that I feel have a “spark” to them, a sort of “life force” element.

**This bowl is surprisingly light weight for its size. I like to work very thin - at the limits of the clay's tolerance. It feels wonderful in the hand. This form is a slightly squared circle. That is an ancient idea with all sorts of connotations. The Ginko tree has been called a "living fossil" - one of the most ancient of all living things on the planet today.

I love that I get to  work with ideas and traditions that are so old and so new at the same time!

If you have any questions about the bowl, the process, or the exhibition history of the piece, please do not hesitate to ask.

Enjoy!

Provencal Ginkgo
#P1805

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