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The prophet Jeremiah was told by God to go down to the potter’s house. And he went. And there was the potter, working at his wheel — shaping the clay with his hands, forming it, pressing it, turning it. And when the vessel he was making was spoiled in his hands, he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand.” The clay does not shape itself. It is shaped. And in the shaping, something beautiful is made.
The Meso Goods Ena Terracotta Bowl is that clay, shaped by artisan hands in Sabana Grande, Honduras — a 13" diameter, 6" tall terracotta bowl with wavy lines that move across the surface like water, like breath, like the rhythm of hands at work. Terracotta is the oldest ceramic material in human history — terra cotta, Italian for “baked earth” — the same fired clay that has been shaped by human hands since the earliest civilizations, the same material that held grain and oil and wine in the storehouses of the ancient world. Here it is shaped into a sculptural bowl that is as beautiful as anything in the room it enters.
Each bowl is unique. The wavy lines, the dimensions, the depth of color — all carry the slight variation that is the signature of a piece made by a single pair of hands, not a mold, not a machine. For decorative use — fill it with fruit, with dried botanicals, with river stones, with ornaments. Set it on a dining table, a console, a coffee table, a mantle. It is the bowl that makes the room.
“Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand.” — Jeremiah 18:6