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MF-010

Firebox End by Marla Tregidga

Firebox End

Marla Tregidga · 2006

Both jars stood on the kiln floor nearest the firebox for four days of pine and manuka, and the flame has left a broad apricot flank on the taller one and stripped the glaze to dry crawl along the shorter one's shoulder. Ash has run twice down the taller jar and stopped in a bead above the foot; pinholes cluster where the slip went on thick. Each carries one incised line round the shoulder, drawn at different heights, and neither jar is glazed inside.

Condition note

The ash run on the left jar stops dead a hand above the foot, which is where the flame stopped as well.

The record

Record
MF-010
Hand
Marla Tregidga
Dated
2006
Medium
Two coiled and paddled river-clay jars with crushed pumice, ash and rutile glaze, iron slip, wood-fired to 1290°C over four days, floor of the kiln beside the firebox
Object
79 × 124 × 63 cm overall, two jars
Origin
Synthesized — no physical original
Model
google/gemini-3-pro-image
Render
2K · 2000 × 1342 px
Struck
08 AUG 2026
Compute
$0.14

The hand

b. 1943, Ohope — lives in Ohope, Bay of Plenty

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