THE POT PAIRING THREAD

[Hartinez]

A dark @penumbra stone age pot!

What size is the pot it's in?

Great looking tree! I would definitely go with a freeform style eggshell (not a crescent but with an organic edge all the way around.)

Here’s what I was thinking. I have this Hinoki cypress that I would like to get into something more shallow and wide to emphasize its height a bit more. The pot the Hinoki currently sits in is a Dave Lowman eggshell. I thought it would look pretty good with the spruce.

@RJG2 I can’t remember the pot it’s in exact size. Maybe 12 or so inches?

 

[RJG2]

Here’s what I was thinking. I have this Hinoki cypress that I would like to get into something more shallow and wide to emphasize its height a bit more. The pot the Hinoki currently sits in is a Dave Lowman eggshell. I thought it would look pretty good with the spruce.

@RJG2 I can’t remember the pot it’s in exact size. Maybe 12 or so inches?

That's a nice one.

This was the color of @penumbra pot I was thinking when @ForrestW mentioned a rough edge (probably a round shape though):

Thread 'Penumbra Stone Age Dark Rectangular Pot 4/12-01'

Apr 12, 2023

Offering some of the last pots I have at present. Plants have kept me quite busy and new pots are about a month out. This one is a very dark manganese wash on a heavy iron oxide clay body fired to cone 6 , completely vitrified and freeze proof. It is a very solid and heavy pot and sits squarely. I am asking $80 plus shipping. Payment by PayPal or postal money order.

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[Ruddigger]

It’s a delicate tree. Something light and organic. An eggshell would be nice, something with a slight crescent shape to it.

I would stay away from anything too deep. A simple nanban would be nice too.

 

[JesseKane]

Starting to think through pot selection for this Ponderosa. It's been a bit challenging since the angles of the trunk are masculine but it has a fairly graceful thin line at the same time. I think I'm leaning towards a rectangular pot with some subtle breaking of hard lines and maybe just a bit of decoration. These three are currently my front runners, thoughts? I've also been considering an oval pot or one with simpler lines but a more interesting texture, but those are hard to find. Would love to use an American potter but I've been having a hard time finding unglazed rectangular pots from western artists that are in stock.

 

[Hartinez]

Starting to think through pot selection for this Ponderosa. It's been a bit challenging since the angles of the trunk are masculine but it has a fairly graceful thin line at the same time. I think I'm leaning towards a rectangular pot with some subtle breaking of hard lines and maybe just a bit of decoration. These three are currently my front runners, thoughts? I've also been considering an oval pot or one with simpler lines but a more interesting texture, but those are hard to find. Would love to use an American potter but I've been having a hard time finding unglazed rectangular pots from western artists that are in stock.
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I do agree with your thoughts. I think you’re on the right track with pot shapes. Of the 3 I like the 1st. Sam Miller has made some rectangles that I think could work. May be worth reaching out to him to see what he has.

 

[JudyB]

Starting to think through pot selection for this Ponderosa. It's been a bit challenging since the angles of the trunk are masculine but it has a fairly graceful thin line at the same time. I think I'm leaning towards a rectangular pot with some subtle breaking of hard lines and maybe just a bit of decoration. These three are currently my front runners, thoughts? I've also been considering an oval pot or one with simpler lines but a more interesting texture, but those are hard to find. Would love to use an American potter but I've been having a hard time finding unglazed rectangular pots from western artists that are in stock.
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For me I'd go with a round with some textural feature. Nothing too deep, but could be fairly wide as the tree is complex.

 

[Dav4]

For me I'd go with a round with some textural feature. Nothing too deep, but could be fairly wide as the tree is complex.

I was thinking of a round drum pot, or at least a round with some rivets.

 

[Balbs]

Maybe a little unorthodox, but what about a square pot with a corner facing the viewer. Mimic the anglular trunk but with closer proportions to a round pot.

 

[ShadyStump]

Maybe a little unorthodox, but what about a square pot with a corner facing the viewer. Mimic the anglular trunk but with closer proportions to a round pot.

This is not an awful idea.

Has anyone even seen a diamond/rhombus shaped pot before?

 

[JesseKane]

Oh that IS a pretty interesting idea, potting with a corner at the front! I'll have to try and mock something up. I did a quick one for an oval last week that I don't hate at all:

 

[Hartinez]

This is not an awful idea.

Has anyone even seen a diamond/rhombus shaped pot before?

Todd Schlafer just displayed a massive ponderosa in a square Tom benda pot with the corner as the front.

 

[Hartinez]

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Starting to think through pot selection for this Ponderosa. It's been a bit challenging since the angles of the trunk are masculine but it has a fairly graceful thin line at the same time. I think I'm leaning towards a rectangular pot with some subtle breaking of hard lines and maybe just a bit of decoration. These three are currently my front runners, thoughts? I've also been considering an oval pot or one with simpler lines but a more interesting texture, but those are hard to find. Would love to use an American potter but I've been having a hard time finding unglazed rectangular pots from western artists that are in stock.

Not the American potter feel, but something like this came to mind for me.

 

[Gabler]

Not the American potter feel, but something like this came to mind for me.
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I like that idea.

 

[cody94withrow]

I’ll go first. This is a San Jose juniper that has gone through a few iterations but has been in my possession since 2016ish. HERE . Its become literati like and needs a pot to fit as such. Here is the tree at current state, a drawing showing next years look with a pot shape i like and a few pots Ive found from American makers. I like the idea of the rougher glaze and a darker clay body, but the lighter colored pot i have pictured also really caught my eye. The pot with the mountainscape may be too much, but it may also be perfect.

wish i could draw

 

[ShadyStump]

This whole conversation has me thinking on the apparent relative rarity of non-rectangular geometric pots. @Brian Van Fleet's suggestion of a hexagon I really like in this case, but now I'm wondering about the pentagons or octagons. I know they take more effort and expertise to make, and maybe that's why we don't see them more often. Still, it seems to me that some higher-end production companies would have invested in at least a few options for less conventional shapes.

 

[JesseKane]

Looks like Dave Giorgi has quite a few more abstract shapes with textures that I love. Found this one on the Mirai store. Still deciding how I feel with a more interesting pot that draws the eye. I feel like the visual weight is more balanced, but that does draw away from the tree.

 

[JudyB]

Looks like Dave Giorgi has quite a few more abstract shapes with textures that I love. Found this one on the Mirai store. Still deciding how I feel with a more interesting pot that draws the eye. I feel like the visual weight is more balanced, but that does draw away from the tree.
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if that is a realistic proportion, it feels too deep and not wide enough for the tree(to me)

 

[JesseKane]

Agreed on the dimensions, and yes that should be pretty close to scale. This starts getting into the horticulture consideration where I want to constrain the root ball with a smaller container in order to start reducing the needle length, so don't want to go much past 11in on the internal pot dimension. That's one reason I liked the very first pot in my original post; it has a flared lip that makes the pot visually wider without actually increasing internal volume much. I'll probably also keep compressing the foliage on the right, which might help a less wide pot look in proportion.

 

[FreshAirSunshine]

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Was thinking the same thing