anonymous abstract ceramic artwork

This small ceramic sculpture feels less made than unearthed — as if it were a fragment lifted from an archaeological site, carrying the quiet authority of time.
Its form is built from stacked, irregular volumes, rough-edged and uncompromising. Nothing here is polished or ornamental. The surface bears the scars of firing and material tension: fissures, abrasions, shifts in tone from deep umber to ash and iron. It reads like compressed geology — layers pressed together, resisting collapse.
Despite its mass, the piece has an internal rhythm. Protrusions and recesses create a dialogue between weight and balance, solidity and pause. It evokes architecture reduced to instinct: a ruin, a shelter, a memory of structure rather than structure itself.
As an object, it occupies space with quiet confidence. It does not ask to be decoded, only to be regarded. In its abstraction lies a sense of permanence — a reminder that form, at its most honest, can exist beyond function, beyond narrative, grounded purely in presence.
 
Dimensions
20 cm H
18 cm W
20 cm D