TRIUMVIRATE

For good or bad, I must admit, I have a real “thing” for covered pots; covered, jars, mizusashi, boxes and what have you. I know I have mentioned this before but the mystery of what the interior looks like and “what's in the box” never cease to hold my attention and get my curiosity peaked to say the least. Though the Oxford definition of a box is; “a container with a flat base and sides, typically square or rectangular and having a lid”, a ceramic box can be so, so much more.  

Illustrated is one of those ceramic box forms that is so much more that the generally accepted idea of a box. This covered box has a wonderful form with perfect fit and finish as well as being well suited to function. Made by Bruce Cochrane, this was constructed out of multiple pieces of stoneware, dipped in a wonderfully visual and textured crackle slip and then wood fired, the interior has a liner glaze of Shino. Perhaps one of my favorite hidden features of this covered box form is the ever so slight hint of green glaze across the surface and where the glaze pooled a bit and to my eye, when was the addition of green anything but a bonus? Great box, great texture and what a wonderful surface, the ceramic triumvirate.