Vintage Raku Fired Ovoid Ceramic Vessel, Signed

  

Sat on a shelf in mom's office for years. Nowhere to put it now.

Why is raku so expensive? Raku and horse hair pottery seem expensive, why is that? Typically, most artists price their raku and horse hair pottery on the high side. One of the major reasons for this is because of the. High breakage rate and plain and simple the difficulty of getting good results with raku.

An American artist who created the "American Raku" firing technique in the 1960s. Soldner was a student of Peter Voulkos, a well-known American ceramist.