Provenance:
Private Collection, UK; acquired in the early 1970s
The free approach to the surface here is so interesting. Henderson made the pot with pinched clay, thin and light, has then rubbed it down, brushed on a slip or even two, then rubbed that away, leaving traces in the scratches, and finally whipped a brush of slip around the top of the neck. This has flaked in firing to give it an incredibly aged feel.
A pot like this has the sense that it could easily have been dug up on a 1000yr BC site in the middle east! It is about the size of a large grapefruit in your hand and sits beautifully on a shelf, a quiet presence that rewards closer inspection.
