Arts and Crafts Shape Pot drip glaze any help with ID?

Found this great Art and Craft Shaped Pot with a great drip glaze and was wondering if anyone could help with the ID. There are throw marks and a nice foot. I'm wondering if it might be something that is very current (and mass produced), made in Indonesia or Vietnam and sold in a place like Pottery Barn or if it's a good studio piece. Thanks![img][/img][img][/img][img][/img]

The technique is Irabo (runny ash glaze), popularised by Shoji Hamada at St Ives, and still used by a number of studio potters today, eg, Janet Leach and her assistant Joanna Wason.
If you google "Irabo (Runny Ash Glaze) Shigaraki Clay Tsubo" and "Joanna Wason Leach Pottery Restoration" you'll see other examples.

Without a mark it's very difficult to know who made this particular pot, or when, but I would place it in the Studio Pottery category, rather than Pottery Barn.

The vase is an odd mixture of styles and, although, I have no evidence, I think that your suggestion that it might be a current mass produced vase from S.E. Asia is likely to be correct. It is very unlikely to have been made by an individual studio potter.

I say this because the shape is, as you say, a typical one used in Europe and the States by potters in the Arts and Crafts era but the under decoration is rather muted and not typical of that era.

The running pseudo-ash glaze on top has absolutely nothing to do with the Arts and Crafts period. It is something that originated in Japanese wood-fired kilns and was no known or at least appreciated in the West during the Arts and Crafts period. It also is not Irabo glaze or something that was popularised by Shoji Hamada at St. Ives, as it is a glaze technique that he very rarely used and I have not seen any work that he produced in St. Ives with running ash glaze.

For information the name Irabo was derived from the Japanese "ira-ira," meaning annoyed or irritable. This referred to the rough surface texture of Irabo tea bowls, itself a reflection of the clay, sand mix, and thin glazing typical of the style.