Tang Vase in Chinese Blue, 12.5"
A glaze that was lost for 60 years
The two handles are what hold it together. They stand up in tight loops from the shoulder to just below the rim, and they carry dark maroon on both sides of the pot — so whichever face you turn out, the handles stay dark.
The glaze is copper, fired to 2,250 degrees, where it reacts to the smoke and flame in the kiln. Chinese Blue was first developed at Jugtown Pottery in the 1930s. After Jacques Busbee died, his wife Juliana asked that it no longer be made, and the recipe was lost. It stayed with Ben Owen Sr., who spent years trying to get back to it and arrived at a recipe of his own. That version passed down through the family, and Ben Owen III still works in his.
At 12.5 inches high, this is a piece with real presence — a console, an entry table, the end of a sideboard. It also asks you to make a decision most vases never do: which side faces the room. Live with it a while and you will probably turn it.
No two pieces develop the same way. The photographs on this page are the vase that will arrive. Hand-signed by Ben Owen III, [2026]. 12.5"h.
Turn it and it's a different vase
No Other Vase Like It
A Tang amphora, thrown in Seagrove
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Signed by hand, dated by year
The maker
Ben Owen
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Each piece is packed by hand and shipped insured. If anything arrives damaged, we replace it or refund you in full — send us a photograph and we'll take it from there.
Yes. Send it back within 14 days of delivery and we'll refund it. Because these are made by hand, expect variation in finish, color and size from piece to piece — that isn't a fault, it's the work.
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