TIMES TWO

Some while back I was asked to make a couple of whisky bottles and after some thought, design and back and forth, I arrived at this simple shape. The bodies were slab built and the neck and stoppers were both thrown and added to the mix. The surface was first covered in black slip and then the white slip was applied, impasto style before being bisque and then glaze fired with my Oribe and some Kuro-Oribe accents in the center of each side. The original two were done in temmoku and ash and honestly have a much different, darker appearance than these two which were made a week or so later. This is certainly no complex form, simple lines, straight forward texture and glazing but without a doubt, they certainly don’t look like your average whisky bottle and that was the idea all along.