RICHARD FREIWALD LUSTERWARE BOTTLE VASE DAVID **Style** - Mid-Century

**Style** - Mid-Century

Styles/Movements – MINIMALISM

as well as altarpieces for the Lidköping crematorium and the cathedral in Skara

Describing their work

RICHARD FREIWALD LUSTERWARE BOTTLE VASE DAVID **Style** - Mid-CenturyA tall, bottle form, cuprous (copper based) lusterware vase with an incredibly protean texture by contemporary New Jersey ceramic artist Richard Freiwald. The shimmering effects of lusterware are achieved with the application of small amounts of metallic oxides to glazed ceramicsand their re firing in a reduction (low oxygen) atmosphere. The second firing, at a temperature high enough to soften the under glaze and break down the metallic compounds,