RAY WEST, SEQUOIA FOREST POTTERY CRYSTALLINE GLAZED BOWL - Signed 1999

RAY WEST, SEQUOIA FOREST POTTERY CRYSTALLINE GLAZED BOWL - Signed 1999 This stunning piece was a gift and has never been used. Mint condition! Any spots in the photos are merely reflections. Richer gold than it appears in photos. This is a fine piece of vibrant gold and blue crystalline studio art pottery created by Ray West. It is a hand thrown bowl with a gorgeous golden crystalline glaze! This piece stands approximately 1 ¾” tall and its diameter is 8.5”. It is a really stunning piece of California Art Pottery. The Bowl is signed "Ray West 1999 Sequoia Forest Pottery." It was hand thrown in California. Would be lovely as an Ikebana vase as well. From Ray West's website - I make one-of-a-kind thrown porcelain pieces using crystalline glazes and other similar high-fire fluid glazes, some matt and some high gloss. These kinds of glazes require an exacting application of glaze and firing schedule to be successful. I experiment with new glazes and applications in every work cycle, which are fired in a large commercially manufactured electric kiln with a modern electronic controller which I rebuilt to fire these kinds of glazes. I gravitate to and select glazes that reflect to me some property of nature, whether the cosmos or lichens growing on a rock. My studio is in the Southern Sierra on a tract of private land in what is now Sequoia National Monument