Featured Have 3 mystery pottery vases/forms, here is #2

Picture heavy to show details.

This one is tactile, divots and texture here and there.

About 8" tall.

The type of firing/glaze?

Mystery mark on the bottom.

Year/era?

Thanks!

 

technically a raku glaze, by the darkened black unglazed base.
studio pottery so modern to modernish i would think and not that that matters really with studio pieces

 

Yes I agree with Charlie, it does look like Raku. They put feathers, bits of string whatever they can find around the pots etc to get the effects when firing.

 

American raku firing is credited to Paul Soldner, and is a result of the experiments he made in attempting to try to imitate the Japanese Raku pottery. in the 1960s.

It was called "American raku," but really had nothing to do with Japanese Raku, other than it was an outgrowth of an experiment that went wrong, only to become a world-wide success in the pottery world.