Topic: Blue trailed vase

[Baked_Beans]

Yes indeed ! The ends of the two  wiggles on the vase  taper to nothing at the top of the vase 

[Baked_Beans]

One of my bowls ...

[chopin-liszt]

I had one like that. I like the wiggle ones better.

[Baked_Beans]

It's the same bowl Sue  !! I've got it now .....good grief !

[chopin-liszt]

 
Well, it sat right on the top left hand shelf of my big display in the sitting room for years and cheered me up every day.

I'm glad it's found such a good home. 

[chopin-liszt]

I've got something else to throw into this 3 spirals thing.
This is a Boffo piece, from Mdina, with 3 spirals on it.
But the shape makes it difficult to work out how his "personal execution" might be translated onto another shape.

It's a Whitefriars shape, the beaked vase, but this one is massive, much bigger than any ever produced at wfs, it's 11 inches tall.

[chopin-liszt]

Last image of it.

[Baked_Beans]

I remember seeing your beak vase ! It's a whopper  The sprial design on your beak works very well with the overall shape of the vase 

I found your bowl in Dorchester , so it has had quite a journey since leaving your shelf ! Of the three spirals around the side only one worked very well the other two were less uniform in shape .  It couldn't have been easy to do !

[Baked_Beans]

Just noticed that the spiral design on your beak looks similar to the sprials on the last bowl you posted on page 4 .

[chopin-liszt]

The bowl doesn't have the round blob in the middle, starting it all off, and the beaked vase does have thick what might have been wiggles if they were not stretched out in the neck!

Another general thought I've had is that they changed the design of Earthtones fairly early on, from random trails to a spiral. Later on, there was a different way of executing Earthtones with random re-introduced.

The execution of random Earthtones can vary considerably, from fabulous to seriously ropey. The spiral must have been easier to execute.
I do not know whether or not that was when Harris was still there, but given IoWSG Tortoiseshell is a spiral too, it cannot be ruled out. On the other hand, it doesn't take too much imagination to come up with a spiral, it could as easily have happened independently.
My cobalt tricorn has a spiral all over it, Harris did do spirals at Mdina.
But nobody need even have seen that, to have come up with it themselves either.

Shall we continue to talk strapping and its executions here, with lots of examples?
This discussion does seem to be turning into something quite useful.

So I'm going to post images of my two most utterly fabulous Earthtones pieces.
And one image of a much later execution, with the random re-introduced.