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Wheel thrown and hand built wood and gas fired functional stoneware, porcelain kitchenware, traditional ceramic serving pots, and more.
Functional ceramics is a special body of work. No other medium establishes such an intimate bond between the maker and the user. You hold the mug in your hands and you drink. You take your nourishment from the bowl and the plate. The energy and the spirit of its making moves to you.
Wonderful food deserves great pots to present them. Make a gift for someone special (or for yourself) who you know would want their lovingly prepared food to be offered in a pot made with love.
All my packaging is biodegradable and sustainable.
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karen on Nov 18, 2022
5 out of 5 starsThis is a beautiful jar! The coloring is awesome and it is the perfect size! I have a collection of the orange hue pottery that is hard to come by and this piece is stunning to add to it! Thank you so much, just love it!
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Michael on Nov 14, 2022
5 out of 5 starsAwesome pottery...great delivery!! Very impressed with this beautiful bowl.
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dunferth on Nov 9, 2022
5 out of 5 starsAs usual absolutely stunning and perfect. We will certainly use this cup for many years.
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mortos2 on Oct 1, 2022
5 out of 5 starsAwesome little cup, fantastic glaze. I have a few items from this seller and they are all of very high quality. Highly recommended. Thanks!
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mortos2 on Oct 1, 2022
5 out of 5 starsReally neat and unique shape and fantastic glaze. Very well made and super high quality. Purchased with another item, they were packaged carefully and arrived quickly in perfect condition. Highly recommend this seller. Thanks!
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Linda on Sep 6, 2022
5 out of 5 starsLove the beautiful bowl. Excellent customer service, fantastic packaging and quick shipping. Thanks so much!
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Jennifer on Sep 6, 2022
5 out of 5 starsBeautiful bowl. Very happy. Such a talented artist. I will definitely purchase more pieces.
About jgpottery
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Pots loaded in the salt and soda chamber of the kiln.
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Small fires in the front of the kiln begin at 10am and warm the pots. We'll switch to stoking from the side at 6pm.
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Good fire going at 2am. Stoking every 3 minutes. Kiln now about 2000F. Another 4 hours to get to 2350F.
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The back of the kiln viewed through the vent stack. Pots are barely visible, wrapped by white hot flame.
The Magic of Clay
I was always drawn to ceramics at craft shows. After the last of my sons was off and on his own, I began to feel a strong need to explore the creative aspects of life, and so turned to clay.
I began taking beginner's classes and was immediately hooked. Baltimore Clayworks is nationally recognized non-profit clay center with ten resident artists who both teach and create. Aside from hosting exhibits and workshops by nationally and internationally recognized artists, they also offer fellowships to emerging artists, and do significant community outreach in impoverished areas of the city, as well as with ex-offenders.
In my gas fired work, I'm looking for elegance, purity of form, and glazes with depth and character.
In the last several years I have focused mainly on wood-fired vessels. This is how pots were first fired, eons ago. The flame makes its mark -- it embraces the pot, and transforms it. Every pot that emerges from the wood kiln is unique. Holding the pot, seeing the trace of the flame, you have an immediate understanding of how this pot was made, how it was fired -- how it came to be. Every unloading of the kiln is a surprise. You must relinquish expectations of perfection and give yourself over to the fire. I don't glaze the outside of most of my pots so that when you look at it, and hold it, and use it, you can share in the process of its creation.
I like to make humble pots. Pots that reflect simple food, shared with family and friends. Pots you always reach for. Pots that function just as you want them to.
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John Gazurian
Owner, Maker, Designer
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