A full, rounded body rises from a narrow foot to a softly flared opening. Deep charcoal envelops the surface, interrupted by ivory markings and a warm rust-orange band near the base. Fine glaze patterns spread across its curves like a weathered skin, inviting closer inspection.

Handmade by Kate Metten and fired in reduction, this vase holds smoke as a material memory. Carbon trapping gives its darkness depth and variation, allowing traces of the firing to become inseparable from the vessel’s identity. Its generous form suggests the body as a container for experience, marked by what it has passed through.

One of a kind.