Historical object.

My historical object was a a very rare chinese urn dating back to the Tang Dynisty.  The piece had many aspect to it.   The top of the piece has a phoenix head which represented the female and in later years the Emporess. In the body of the jug was details inlay of the lotus flower.    After much consternation and exploring I found that I was drawn to the female aspect of the peice and would try and create a piece with with this in mind.   I started off by doing a lot of throwing on the wheel of different shapes.    What  I did then was assemble these pieces together to create both a functional piece (as the original piece would have been a funcation piece) and a form that would or could be preceiced as a female form.   Above you can see some of the original forms which I threw.  I subsequently glazed them and also used ceramic pencils to explore colour.