Contemporary Handmade Ceramic Vase, Striped Glaze

This little vase caught my eye for its rim, no two waves of that pinched edge are quite the same, which tells you it was shaped by hand after throwing, not from a mold. A solo studio potter working in the United States made it in 2024, wrapping a pale stoneware body in loose, hand-brushed charcoal stripes that pool and speckle a little differently with every turn of the piece.

[d]Dimensions | 4.5 in. Diameter x 4 in. H

[d]Surface | Glossy pale ground glaze with hand-brushed vertical stripes in a dark charcoal brown, showing natural pooling and light iron speckling where the brushwork meets the rim

[d]Primary Material | Stoneware

[d]Period | Contemporary

[d]Date | 2024, per the maker's own impressed mark

[d]Origin | United States

[d]Style or Movement | Contemporary studio pottery

[d]Maker | Unattributed. Purchased directly from an independent maker's Instagram shop

[d]Marks | Impressed to the underside within the footring: lowercase cursive initials reading approximately "nb," a small wave motif beneath, and "2024" impressed as a separate line

[d]Construction | Wheel-thrown, with the rim hand-pinched into its scalloped wave after throwing

[condition]

This vase presents as new. No chips, cracks, hairlines, or repairs are visible in the available photographs. The irregularity of the rim is intentional, hand-pinched after throwing, not damage. The mottled pooling and light speckling within the glaze stripes are part of the brushwork and firing rather than a flaw. Please review all photographs closely, as they form part of this description.