Description
Born from fire and smoke, this raku vessel draws its inspiration from the Thor’s Helmet Nebula. The vase’s surface shifts with nebular blues, radiant reds, and spectral violets, echoing the ionized gases that ripple through the real cloud. A piece that feels both ancient and cosmic, holding the echoes of stars that lived and died long before us.
Thor’s Helmet is part of the vast Veil Nebula—a glowing filament left behind after a massive star exploded thousands of years ago. Its swirling structures stretch across the sky like celestial brushstrokes, echoing the organic movement created in this raku firing.
This vase is both sculpture and vessel—a small fragment of the cosmos brought into the home. Each shift of light reveals new colors and textures, much like the glowing gases of a nebula drifting through the universe.
No two raku pieces ever emerge the same. During the firing process, flame, smoke, and oxygen interact unpredictably with the glaze, creating rich metallic tones and layered color fields that resemble distant nebulae and galaxies.
Height: 7 inches / 17 cm
Width: 5 inches / 12 cm
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Raku is a firing process dating back to 16th century Japan, that creates one-of-a-kind unique pieces of art. You can learn more about the raku process here.
