mudslingers@ATT.NET on thu 26 sep 02
clayheads,
anybody know if there is a name for pots that have a cone shaped bottom? (they
have to sit in stands that hold them vertical)
i make this shape with lids (and it is also the shape of my "logo"), but i
don't know what to call them!
i know they are not "amphoras" because the dictionary says amphoras have "large
oval bodies with a narrow cylindrical neck and 2 handles that rise almost to
the level of the mouth". and that does not describe my "cone shaped pots" (very
boring name, dontcha think?)
thanks (from the lexically challenged (among other idiosyncracies) potter),
lauren
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Lauren Bellero
Mudslingers Pottery
Red Bank, NJ 07701
http://mudslingers.home.att.net
732.747.4853
Rob Van Rens on thu 26 sep 02
Call them "Belleros", perhaps?
Robert Van Rens, Workshop Coordinator
Otto Kroeger Associates
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Subject: need name for cone shaped pots
clayheads,
anybody know if there is a name for pots that have a cone shaped bottom?
(they
have to sit in stands that hold them vertical)
i make this shape with lids (and it is also the shape of my "logo"), but i
don't know what to call them!
i know they are not "amphoras" because the dictionary says amphoras have
"large
oval bodies with a narrow cylindrical neck and 2 handles that rise almost to
the level of the mouth". and that does not describe my "cone shaped pots"
(very
boring name, dontcha think?)
thanks (from the lexically challenged (among other idiosyncracies) potter),
lauren
--
Lauren Bellero
Mudslingers Pottery
Red Bank, NJ 07701
http://mudslingers.home.att.net
732.747.4853
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Charles Moore on thu 26 sep 02
Lauren,
I think you can feel free to call your cone shaped pots, with lids,
"amphora" (amphorae in the plural). In the early 20th century, in the Arts
and Crafts period, the Fulper art pottery made a vase with a very
constricted bottom mounted on a small base and used no handles. Fulper
referred to these pots as amphora, even though they were mounted on a base.
And aside: I have two Fulper amphora pots. Every such Fulper that I have
seen is slightly off kilter, i.e., it leans slightly. Since their pottery
was almost entirely made in molds, the tilt did not seem to bother them.
Charles
Sacramento, where the temperature is forecast to drop below 100 degrees for
the first time in many days.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 11:30 PM
Subject: need name for cone shaped pots
> clayheads,
>
> anybody know if there is a name for pots that have a cone shaped bottom?
(they
> have to sit in stands that hold them vertical)
>
> i make this shape with lids (and it is also the shape of my "logo"), but i
> don't know what to call them!
>
> i know they are not "amphoras" because the dictionary says amphoras have
"large
> oval bodies with a narrow cylindrical neck and 2 handles that rise almost
to
> the level of the mouth". and that does not describe my "cone shaped pots"
(very
> boring name, dontcha think?)
>
> thanks (from the lexically challenged (among other idiosyncracies)
potter),
> lauren
>
> --
> Lauren Bellero
> Mudslingers Pottery
> Red Bank, NJ 07701
> http://mudslingers.home.att.net
> 732.747.4853
>
>
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Cheryl Hoffman on thu 26 sep 02
Hi Lauren,
I took a look in my "Potter's Directory of Shape and Form" (Neal
French). There is such a shape classification as "cone". The examples that
were shown had very teeny-tiny flat bottoms but what you describe does sound
like a covered cone shaped vessel.
Hope that was some help.
Cher Hoffman
New Port Richey, FL.
Carol Tripp on thu 26 sep 02
Hi Lauren,
My dictionary has the same definition of amphorae but the next word down the
page is amphoral :"(adjective) pertaining to or resembling an amphora". So
you could call your pots amphoral pots because they do "resemble" amphorae
and unless you get some know-it-all, you should be ok.
Best regards,
Carol
Dubai, UAE
Lots of amphorae on display here, outside homes. No danger of freeze/thaw!
(I've told my kids that if it ever snows in Dubai, they will get TV's in
their bedrooms. Ha.)
Lauren wrote, in part:
>i know they are not "amphoras" because the dictionary says amphoras have
>"large
>oval bodies with a narrow cylindrical neck and 2 handles that rise almost
>to
>the level of the mouth".
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