Dark Sang Red Conical Bowl

The husband and wife team of Otto and Gertrud Natzler combined Gertrud's elegant forms and Otto's glaze formulations to create intimately scaled vessels enhanced with rich colors and textures. Otto described their work: "We focused our interest on exploring form in its totality-searching for perfection of outline and proportion-and relating to its color and texture of the surface." Their continual experimentation with materials and methods led to wafer-thin vessels that glow with vibrantly hued glazes with the smoothness of glass or the texture of stone. Frequently, nature serves as inspiration for the complex glazes.