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thoughs are cool, i always wanted to throw big like that but i cant get past 10 lb's at this point but ill get their, ill just need a bigger wheel and alot more clay and pashents.
rock and roll simon. i think that is a apropriet potting turm.
joealanouf 3 years ago
WOW, facinating Simon thank you,
What I have heard was done to make large storage jars like these on Crete was that the base would be thrown and then keyed and coils added to build it up to completion, it is my "GUESS" that this is how these might have been made.
Liam =-)
liamg1995 3 years ago
Wow! Amazing. What leviathans! They look like the egg sacks of some giant insect or monster. Wonder pots. Thanks Simon!
chopin65 3 years ago
My husband won the bet. He said they were some type of hand-made pottery of some sort. I personally felt they were perhaps old versions of a mixer, perhaps pottery, perhaps not but he was right on the money with his guess. BTW, I was showing him your homepage with these on the initial front page. He didn't know a name for them so at leats I can tell him that much. I'd love to have a couple of these in my yard. I'd have plants ofsomesport growing inside of them. Thx for the information..
PaisleyPlace 3 years ago
I have never seen anything like this ever! It is no match to the tiger whiskey jugs we find here and there by the old railway.
StevesBeast 3 years ago
The upturned ones look like an Andy Goldsworthy statue !!
Redshift21 3 years ago
lol! funny video! I 'dig' your sense of humor (humour..hee hee). I just made added this one to my 'favorites' list. "...making my way through the Amphora forrest". Hilarious! I can't remember who said it but you DO knock on every piece of pottery; no matter how many tons it might weigh. LOL! Thanks for pulling over and filming those Simon because I have never seen those before. Here I come google...."amphora"
TinkTheHustler 3 years ago
I also wondered about them. The smaller ones were shaped like that to fit in the holds of sailing ships. I can't imagine even loading one of those when empty into a sailing ship 150 years ago. A real mystery!
pensandcalls 3 years ago
I wondered about the origin of those after seeing them on your site. I hope you, Simon, or someone seeing this video can find out (or knows) more about them. Very curious. The lines around the outside that are presumably fill lines do seem to be hand made. Made on a giant Leach wheel, no doubt by someone with VERY long arms!
parrotpotterstudio 3 years ago
LOL! LONG ARMS!
TinkTheHustler 3 years ago