TROIKA St Ives Jug Cornish studio pottery storm blue platinum rare earth glazes
This is a magnificent Troika St Ives jug, an iconic design with a variety of reactive, textured and glossy glazes and platinum on a tactile storm blue background and a smooth, pale interior. Made by Cornish pottery Geoff James, Redruth, Cornwall, who with his mastery of glazing has created exciting, contemporary generation Troika studio pottery, right here in Cornwall. The central hole (Geoff calls this the Hepworth hole) has a rich, deep blue glaze, every angle gives you a new shape, texture and colour to look at, it is a stunning piece. The vase is signed, it has the potter’s imprint GJ and is stamped on the base with the model’s name and the unique issue number. Height: 26.5 cm / 10.4 inches. Width: 14.5 cm / 5.7 inches. Depth: 7.5 cm / 3 inches. Weight: 1455g / 51.32 ounces. Troika pottery started life in St Ives, Cornwall in 1963, then moved to Newlyn and in 1983 it had to close. When Fosters Pottery took over the Troika name, Geoff James decided to name his pieces Celebration of Troika to distinguish his new generation pieces from the previous, Cornish incarnations. Work celebrate and embody the ethos of Cornish Troika, as well as showcasing Geoff James’ extraordinary pottery skills and understanding of complex glazes. Geoff uses traditional Troika pottery moulds and he decorates them using his own glazes. Containing a combination of metal oxides and rare earth salts producing stunning and unique pieces with incredible glaze effects. Each mould is used to produce only a limited number of pieces and each piece has a potter’s imprint’GJ’. They also have the Troika mould name, the unique issue number as well as the pottery’s stamp on the bottom.
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