shuji ikeda        

3012 king st.
Berkeley, CA 94703
ph: 510-845-1634

dancing pots

Making a Dancing Pot is like observing clouds changing formations. They change shapes and depth as if a child’s mind is playing in the mud. It is fun to see the way my unexplored creativity wells out. It is a way of making pots on the wheel and combining the pinch pot method to alter a thrown piece.

It will have a sculptedquality within the traditional craft of pottery making.

Different levels of wavy patterns are related to each other like wind sweeping a field of grass and a strong foreground and background are created.

One of the three legs sometime appears like an elephant trunk, and a wavy top looks like a pair of its ears. Once you start seeing an elephant the fun starts. You can see different elephant characters in each pot and when you see a grouping of them you can actually imagine a heard grazingthrough a field in Africa.

Dancing Pots are flower-arranging vases which take you away from traditional flower arranging concepts and give you freedom to go into your wondrous imagination.

  • Dancing pot wood fired

    wood fired to cone 10 to 11

    shino glaze on stone wear with natural flying ash in climbing kiln

    11" x 12" x 14"h

    $3,200.00

     

  • Dancing pot wood fired

    wood fired to cone 10 to 11

    shino glaze on stone wear with natural flying ash in climbing kiln

    this is the back view of the dancing pot above 

    11" x 12" x 14"h

    $3,200.00

  • Dancing pot Wood fired

    wood fired to cone 9 to10

    shino glaze on stone wear with natural flying ash in climbing kiln

    9 1/2" x 10" x 15"h

    $3,200.00

  • Dancing pot wood fired

    wood fired to cone 10 to 11

    shino glaze on stone wear with natural flying ash in climbing kiln

    this is the back view of the dancing pot above 

    11" x 12" x 14"h

    $3,200.00

  • Dancing pot Male Figure

    Green moss speckle wonder glaze on white stone ware

    electric fired, cone 6, glazed inside for water tightness for cut flower arrangement.

    5" x 5" x 12 1/2"h

    $250.00

  • Dancing pot  A pair

    Green moss speckle wonder glaze on white stone ware

    electric fired, cone 6, glazed inside for water tightness for cut flower arrangement.

    5" x 5" x 12 1/2"h

    $250.00 each

gallary dancingpot 1

A very contemporary looks of dancing pots actuary goes well with this very traditional Japanese antique wheel tansu made in Edo era (1615-1868)

3012 king st.
Berkeley, CA 94703
ph: 510-845-1634