Stoneware: The Spirals and Thickness of Wheel Throwing

A set of large handmade pottery. They are flower vases, water jars, or storage containers, ranging in size from thirty centimeters to nearly one meter. Their forms are full and round, but none are perfectly symmetrical—the rim is slightly skewed, one side of the belly is more bulging than the other, and the thickness of the foot is uneven. The surface is unglazed or only thinly coated with slip, in warm ochre, earthy yellow, and grey-brown colors, revealing the clay particles, spiral finger marks left by hand-throwing, and color variations from firing. One piece has a small firing crack on the rim, unrepaired. They are placed on a plain floor and wooden shelves, with clear spacing between them, and a few dry branches are inserted into some. 
Avoid: using smooth glazed mass-produced pottery; making each piece perfectly symmetrical; eliminating hand-thrown marks; adding painted patterns.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一組大型的手作陶器。它們是花器、水缸或收納罐,尺寸從三十公分到接近一公尺不等,形體是飽滿的圓,但沒有一件是完美對稱的——口沿略微歪斜、腹部一側比另一側鼓、底足的厚度不均。表面沒有上釉或只上薄薄的化妝土,顏色是溫暖的赭紅、土黃與灰褐,可以看見陶土的顆粒、手拉坯留下的螺旋指痕、以及燒製時的色差。有一件的口沿有一道細小的燒裂,沒有修補。它們被放在素色的地面與木質層板上,彼此有明確的間距,裡面插著幾枝乾燥的枝條。避免:使用光滑上釉的量產陶器、讓每一件完全對稱、消除手拉坯的痕跡、加入彩繪圖案。