Snowflakes, grown on purpose, frozen in the glaze.
Each of these vases is made in Jingdezhen, the city in southeastern China long known as the country's porcelain capital, with a history of porcelain production stretching back over a thousand years and supplying imperial courts for centuries. These pieces are marked on the base accordingly.
They're finished in a crystalline glaze, one of the most technically demanding effects in ceramics. The crystals form inside the glaze itself during firing, when the kiln is brought up past 2300°F and then cooled in carefully controlled stages, allowing mineral crystals to grow and then lock in place before they can dissolve back into the glass. Too fast a cool and the crystals never form; too slow and they overgrow into a blur, which is exactly why this glaze remains a specialty rather than a standard finish, even in a city as steeped in porcelain-making as this one.
The effect itself traces back even further than it looks. The earliest crystalline glazes are believed to date to China's Song Dynasty, over a thousand years ago, though the technique largely vanished for centuries before European potters rediscovered it by accident in the 18th century.
Choose from two finishes:
Ivory-Beige — a gourd-shaped vase with a wide, scalloped mouth, covered edge to edge in overlapping pale crystal formations that catch the light differently from every angle
Plum-to-Rust Ombre — a rounder form with a flared neck glazed deep rust at the rim, fading through violet into a cluster of blush-pink crystals across the shoulder
Tucked inside every order, a little something for first time Tavola customers — a hand-finished vintage passport notebook. Note the piece, the moment, the person you gave it to. One day these pieces will sit in someone else's hands — and they'll know it came from yours.
Snowflakes, grown on purpose, frozen in the glaze.
Each of these vases is made in Jingdezhen, the city in southeastern China long known as the country's porcelain capital, with a history of porcelain production stretching back over a thousand years and supplying imperial courts for centuries. These pieces are marked on the base accordingly.
They're finished in a crystalline glaze, one of the most technically demanding effects in ceramics. The crystals form inside the glaze itself during firing, when the kiln is brought up past 2300°F and then cooled in carefully controlled stages, allowing mineral crystals to grow and then lock in place before they can dissolve back into the glass. Too fast a cool and the crystals never form; too slow and they overgrow into a blur, which is exactly why this glaze remains a specialty rather than a standard finish, even in a city as steeped in porcelain-making as this one.
The effect itself traces back even further than it looks. The earliest crystalline glazes are believed to date to China's Song Dynasty, over a thousand years ago, though the technique largely vanished for centuries before European potters rediscovered it by accident in the 18th century.
Choose from two finishes:
Ivory-Beige — a gourd-shaped vase with a wide, scalloped mouth, covered edge to edge in overlapping pale crystal formations that catch the light differently from every angle
Plum-to-Rust Ombre — a rounder form with a flared neck glazed deep rust at the rim, fading through violet into a cluster of blush-pink crystals across the shoulder
Tucked inside every order, a little something for first time Tavola customers — a hand-finished vintage passport notebook. Note the piece, the moment, the person you gave it to. One day these pieces will sit in someone else's hands — and they'll know it came from yours.
