JARS

JAKE JOHNSON is an artist I keep coming back to because I really like his trays and how they are incorporated into the jars themselves. I like the idea that only these pieces are meant for the particular tray they are on as opposed to a flat tray that could have anything placed on it. To me these trays give the jars a home rather than just a place to be.

 Shadow May’s work also fits into the trays that are meant for the purpose of holding these certain jars.

And last for my online sets I came across Caleb Zouhary whose work I think is pretty cool. I like that each piece is similar to another enough that they fit well together but are all their own pieces. I also like his use of color.

The first set I came across in the library was in a book on “Shimaoka Tatsuzo.” I went through a lot of books and found some really great pieces but I found it really hard to find sets on platters in the books, which mostly showed single jars. However I feel like these “lidded bowls with plates” could be worked into my concept for one of my sets.

In the book “Mary Rodgers on Pottery and Porcelain” I found these boxes which are a metallic black. Rodgers states that they represent tightly packed flower buds and inside there are ceramic flower sculptures. I thought these were interesting and could be good examples for the puzzle lids. I couldn’t find any information on who made them unless it was Mary Rodgers on her own work...

In the book “Richard Fairbanks, American potter” I found this jar which I really like with its sharp concise edges. I also learned that he was the ceramics professor here through the 70s and 80s.

  

I also found the book “The Potters Art in Africa,” which was really cool, I wanted to reference this piece because I like how it’s sitting and I have been looking into adding feet to my own jars/tea pots. I’m not sure if its four separate pieces or if its one.

Last I found a book on Eva Zeisel called  “Eva Zeisel designer for industry,” I really enjoy her work and liked the tray despite what I said earlier about Jake Johnsons trays I still like flat open trays.