Ceramic fish rotisserie

Saw this amazing contraption in the Nantes History Museum - a three-legged ceramic oven with a rotisserie rod, complete with crank handle, dating from 1901.

I'm not sure whether a fire heated the oven from below - perhaps it sat on embers - or maybe hot charcoal sat in the base beneath the fish.

Cornwall Slate Circle - Richard Long

British artist Richard Long's work is about his relationship to nature. This stone circle in an entrance hall of Chambord Chateau (France) makes me think of Stonehenge and crop circles.

I've included a second photo below to give an idea of scale.

See more at his website, http://www.richardlong.org

Shell pot, Sevres Ceramics Museum

Sevres porcelain lidded pot in the form of a shell. 

Sevres was a centre of porcelain production, and today the museum and its galleries showcase the best of the works made there;  historical ceramics; and art ceramics to the present day.

Sevres Ceramics Museum

Pot with snake handle & spout

I saw this amazing richly decorated vessel at Sevres Ceramics Museum, just outside Paris.

Primitive sculpture

This primitive sculpture looks like the skeletal remains of a prehistoric lizard-like creature. The intricate cutting and toothed carving was probably done with stone tools, yet the object has delicacy and balance.

Bird head pot - Joan Miro

Joan Miro often combined different materials in his sculptural work.

 http://fundaciomiro-bcn.org

Miro's ceramics

Catalan artist Joan Miro began making ceramic works in 1945, in his 50's. He, like me, loved the element of chance when fire and clay interact. 

This double-sided stele (1956) is made from stoneware clay with enamel. http://fundaciomiro-bcn.org