Handles Vessels

Humble metal farm buckets, wash tubs, woks, and feed troughs have a poetic beauty in their design and noble utility. Occasionally their spirit shows up in my ceramic vessels.

Kathy Erteman’s White Handles Vessel is made of wheel-thrown brown stoneware with a white glaze. With its tall loop handles, this piece of pottery is a textural sculpture. This ceramic piece was inspired by work buckets

White Handles Vessel
9" x l0 "x 7"

The Tall Orange Handles Vessel by Kathy Erteman is a wheel thrown stoneware sculpture with black brushwork and an orange gloss glaze. The tall handles and black interior make this piece of contemporary ceramics a luminous work of art

Tall Orange Handles Vessel
10 x 11 x 9.5

Titled Black/White Texture Handles Vessel, this wheel thrown stoneware sculpture by Kathy Erteman has a black and white texture glaze with a gloss black glaze on its tall handles and interior; the contemporary vessel was inspired by utilitarian buckets

Black/White Texture Handles Vessel
11" x 10" x 9"

Kathy Erteman’s Pewter Long Vessel with Handles was wheel thrown from stoneware and altered. The pewter matte glaze on the vessel and handles makes this a handsome contemporary ceramic piece inspired by a farm bucket design

Pewter Long Vessel with Handles
8" x 15" x 7"

The Indigo Moss Oval Vessel w/ Handles by Kathy Erteman is a stoneware sculpture hand-built in strips with a wheel thrown top and handles. Included in the 2019 International Korean Ceramic Biennale, it has white brushwork over black slip

Indigo Moss Oval Vessel w/ Handles
18" x 29" x 10.5"

Titled Grey - Orange Oval Handles Vessel, this stoneware sculpture with loop handles was inspired by a basket. Wheel thrown and altered by Kathy Erteman, the ellipse form is minimal and the grey texture glaze with orange highlights luminous

Grey - Orange Oval Handles Vessel
11" x 14" x 12.75 "

The Lava Handles Vessel by Kathy Erteman is a wheel thrown vessel with tiny handles and a lava texture glaze in brown with white and pink tones. The gloss white glaze interior contemporizes this ceramic piece inspired by a bucket

Lava Handles Vessel
9" x 8" x7"

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