Rest Vase – Yellow

Prempracha's Collection has shaped stoneware ceramics in San Kamphaeng, near Chiang Mai, since 1986, still run today by the family that founded it.

Ceramicist Sarngsan Na Soontorn worked with the Prempracha workshop on the Rest collection: nine vase forms, each with a wide base and an opening sized for a single stem rather than an arrangement. The base does the quiet work — catching petals as a flower runs its course from bud to bloom to wither, so the whole cycle stays visible on the ceramic beneath it. Each of the nine forms carries only one glaze colour of its own.

This form comes in a matt daffodil yellow, its base 22 by 22 centimetres and 10 centimetres high. As with every piece from the workshop, it is hand-formed, so no two vases are ever quite alike.