I made this spade vase form quite a while back out of spare parts from a "construction job" that I was working on. Though it took a while, it finally got fired and here is the finished piece glazed in my Kuro-Oribe style surface with some additions sprayed over using a glaze atomizer. I can say though this was a spontaneous build, I may have had an eye toward Hans Cooper's spade pieces to get me to this point and once assembled, I pierced squares in the supporting foot and incised abstracted field designs on either side. Overall the surface works quite well on the form, the attached ring lugs and the incised decoration giving the vase form a nice, aged appearance that has differing faces depending on what light source it is exposed to. At the end of the day for a spontaneous build,interesting form, random decoration and a rather reliable surface it was enjoyable to play a bit with the left over parts and get a piece that I certainly would not have built but for these circumstances. On a side note if you look at the very bottom of the foot you will see a duistinct, green roll of glaze just hanging above the surface. How this just created this roll and didn't run off is another one of those decidedly cosmic conundrums of ceramics.
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