{"title":"Ceramics \u0026 Pottery","description":"Studio ceramics and vintage pottery: vases, bowls, vessels and jugs. One of one.","products":[{"product_id":"minka-veal-turquoise-pinch-vessel","title":"Minka Veal, Turquoise Pinch Vessel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA small hand-built vase with a good off-round lip and a soft turquoise glaze. The shape has not been fussed over, which is exactly why it works: you can still feel the push of the maker's hand in the pinched wall. Good with a single stem, good on a shelf, and just as good left empty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe base is signed Minka Veal. As a potter the name does not trace, but Melbourne holds one all the same: Minka Wolman, a journalist who in 1944 married the tonalist painter Hayward Veal, of the Meldrum school, and left with him for Europe in 1951. Whether the hand that signed this pot is hers or simply shares her name, we cannot say. We note the coincidence, and leave it open.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KILL OR BE KILLED","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43248761012337,"sku":"KOBK.26.OBJ.014","price":115.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/5800\/9201\/files\/h06.jpg?v=1781597428"},{"product_id":"studio-ceramic-bottle-vase-signed-lois-granger-1963","title":"Studio Ceramic Bottle Vase, Signed Lois Granger, 1963","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis one earns its space on silhouette alone. A long neck rises from a compressed bulb, the whole form held in alternating dark-glazed and textured vertical bands that keep it moving as you walk around it. The deep plum-brown glaze against the raised reserve work gives it a carved feel without losing the discipline of the thrown body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe maker is not yet securely placed, so we keep the attribution to what the base tells us: signed Lois Granger, 1963. The date does real work. 1963 sits squarely in the post-war studio-pottery moment, when bottle forms and stoneware surfaces were being pushed toward the sculptural. A strong, confident pot whose author is still to be fully traced.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KILL OR BE KILLED","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43248762159217,"sku":"KOBK.26.OBJ.024","price":295.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/5800\/9201\/files\/h18.jpg?v=1781597473"},{"product_id":"art-deco-beswick-blue-glaze-jug","title":"Art Deco Beswick Blue-Glaze Jug","description":"\u003cp\u003eA jug with one foot in the kitchen and the other in modernism. The body is compact and rounded, lifted on three small feet, then finished with an angled rim that gives the whole thing its snap. The pale blue glaze keeps it from feeling severe: soft enough to stay domestic, sharp enough to read as design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeswick is better known now for figurines, but the firm made a great deal of ornamental and useful ware alongside them, and this sits in that good middle ground. Useful, sculptural, and a little smarter than it needs to be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KILL OR BE KILLED","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43248762191985,"sku":"KOBK.26.OBJ.026","price":95.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/5800\/9201\/files\/tri_foot_hero.jpg?v=1779841361"},{"product_id":"australian-indigenous-coil-built-pottery-bowl-signed-pep","title":"Coil-Built Earthenware Bowl, Signed PEP","description":"\u003cp\u003eA heavy hand-built bowl with real presence. The inside stays dark and smoky; the outside does the talking, with spirals, dot rows and banded colour over a surface that still lets the built-up coils show through. Coil-building is among the oldest ways of making a pot, raising the wall in stacked ropes of clay rather than throwing it on a wheel, and leaving that method visible is a deliberate choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt reads as a bowl made within a living community tradition, where function and image are meant to stay together. PEP is not yet identified, and we hold the maker open rather than guess. The strongest fit is the Queensland Indigenous ceramics tradition that gathered force from the 1970s on. We hold work like this with care, and welcome correction from the communities whose practice it belongs to.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KILL OR BE KILLED","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43248762224753,"sku":"KOBK.26.OBJ.027","price":285.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/5800\/9201\/files\/h20.jpg?v=1781597473"},{"product_id":"cobalt-glazed-earthenware-bowl-persia-or-iraq","title":"Cobalt-Glazed Earthenware Bowl, Marjorie Ho Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eA proper table bowl from the early Islamic world. Wide-mouthed, glazed where it mattered, and left bare at the foot where the potter held it to dip into the glaze. Cobalt blue on a pale ground is one of the signature looks of early Mesopotamian Islamic pottery, the same blue that would later travel all the way to Chinese porcelain and back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe likeliest use is domestic rather than ceremonial: a bowl that sat low among a meal with cups and jars, holding food meant to be shared. Time has only helped it. Burial has turned the blue smoky and mineral, so the surface now carries both of its lives at once, first at the table and then in the ground. The period attribution is consistent with the type but remains untested, and we present it that way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KILL OR BE KILLED","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43248762257521,"sku":"KOBK.26.OBJ.028","price":495.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/5800\/9201\/files\/h10.jpg?v=1781597429"},{"product_id":"small-twin-handled-vase-signed-lesley","title":"Small Twin-Handled Vase, Signed Lesley","description":"\u003cp\u003eA compact little vase that borrows the memory of much older forms. The side lugs and broken blue glaze make it feel older in spirit than it probably is, as if a large storage jar had been shrunk to pocket scale. That is the appeal: not grand, just well judged. A small object with enough shape and surface to stand on its own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KILL OR BE KILLED","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43248762290289,"sku":"KOBK.26.OBJ.029","price":65.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/5800\/9201\/files\/download_2e9de7cf-26b4-4e0c-96ff-cbcd1a924281.jpg?v=1779780535"},{"product_id":"vietnamese-pottery-lime-jar-with-overhead-handle","title":"Vietnamese Pottery Lime Jar with Overhead Handle","description":"\u003cp\u003eA lime jar from the long betel-chewing tradition of Vietnam. It held slaked lime, one of the essential parts of the betel quid, taken out on a finger or small spatula and smeared onto the leaf before chewing. Betel was social and ceremonial across the region, offered to guests and used to mark occasions, so a jar like this lived close to hospitality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat practical use explains the form better than any decorative reading: the compact body, the overhead loop handle for hanging or carrying, the small off-centre opening to keep the caustic lime contained. The good ones carry both lives at once, everyday utensil and object of ritual.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KILL OR BE KILLED","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43248762323057,"sku":"KOBK.26.OBJ.030","price":285.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/5800\/9201\/files\/download_e2711b3b-f570-4608-82c6-bf876a9bcb0d.jpg?v=1779781969"},{"product_id":"chris-harford-wine-jug","title":"Chris Harford, Wine Jug","description":"\u003cp\u003eA wine jug, but not a polite one. The body sits low and broad, the neck rises fast, and the handle feels pulled for grip rather than ceremony. The real draw is the firing. Raku pulls the pot from the kiln while still glowing and cools it fast, often in smoke, so the surface is partly the maker's doing and partly the fire's: here, sand, olive and smoke move across it in a way that makes the jug look weathered before it has even been used.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFunctional form, fire-led surface, and no interest in tidying the thing up.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KILL OR BE KILLED","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43248762388593,"sku":"KOBK.26.OBJ.032","price":165.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/5800\/9201\/files\/download_a81f7693-faaf-42c0-8f7d-be3c10077f88.jpg?v=1779781942"},{"product_id":"robert-barron-stoneware-bowl","title":"Robert Barron Stoneware Bowl","description":"\u003cp\u003eA bowl from a potter who built a career on firing for variation rather than perfection. Robert Barron spent years working alongside wood-firing potters overseas, including a visit to Michael Cardew, before returning to establish Gooseneck Pottery at Kardella in Victoria in 1984, where he built one of the largest wood-fired kilns in the country and fires it once a year. The lineage runs back through Cardew to Bernard Leach, the Anglo-Japanese tradition that put function and honest material first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll of that shows in the finish: ash, warmth, and small irregularities that belong to the kiln rather than the bench. The form is simple in the right way, open and useful, not trying to perform beyond its job. The firing does the talking. Good Australian studio pottery usually is exactly this: function first, but never plain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KILL OR BE KILLED","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43248762486897,"sku":"KOBK.26.OBJ.035","price":245.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/5800\/9201\/files\/download_71076bff-f053-4ec8-8674-2d62b40c3d06.jpg?v=1779781752"},{"product_id":"jan-bell-small-basket-form-vessel","title":"Jan Bell, Small Basket-Form Vessel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA small hand-built vessel that borrows the shape of a basket without trying to copy one too neatly. That slight mismatch, ceramic weight pretending at woven lightness, is exactly what makes it good. Jan Bell's pottery often sits in that useful zone between function and image, where a domestic object is allowed a little narrative. Small, playful, and stronger than it first looks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KILL OR BE KILLED","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43248762519665,"sku":"KOBK.26.OBJ.036","price":125.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/5800\/9201\/files\/h19.jpg?v=1781597473"},{"product_id":"creation-of-man-sicilian-art-pottery-bottle-vase","title":"\"Creation of Man\" Sicilian Art Pottery Bottle Vase","description":"\u003cp\u003eA slim bottle-form vase in a dark olive-black glaze, from the giftware and export side of Sicilian art pottery rather than the stricter studio tradition. The silhouette is elegant enough to save it from novelty, and the inscription gives it a very specific period charm: the moment when Mediterranean pottery made for export still carried a bit of theatre in its branding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKeep it simple and let the shape do the work. 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