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The 7000 series shape, with its straight vertical walls and simple 45 degree cut in at the bottom, is one of the most common Stoneage Modern shapes in my experience. So why then, do you ask, did I buy not one ... but two 7005 flower pots today? They're on the smallish side with only a 5.5" mouth and 3.5" tall, not particularly rare, and I already have dozens of ZSC Stoneage Modern pots.
My reply is simple: the color. While I find white, tan and plain green pieces fairly regularly, the colors of the two pots I found today are phenomenal!
The pot pictured in the foreground is a variation of the not-too-uncommon "Sandstone" glaze, but in this instance it is foamier, brighter, glossier, and more spectacularly speckled than I've seen before. Large dabs of cobalt blue visually burst from the field of grey-green glaze in a marvelous display not too far from what one might expect from an Independence Day celebration. Fireworks, indeed!
Behind it is a new color for me. While I do not know its given name, it is a very glossy darkish terracotta. Not orange, not brown, not red, but somewhere in between.
Earlier this month I was discussing this line with Craig McCormick over at MODish.net, and we were agreeing that a comprehensive catalog of shapes and colors would be a nice resource for collectors, albeit an exhausting project given the scope and scale of production. I'm starting to think I might undertake this challenge myself, hopefully with the help of the collecting community, via a wiki-format site. We'll see if this ever happens, or if it is just another of my harebrained ideas. If anyone has any interest at all in participating in such an experiment, I beg you to let me know.
Found on July 20, 2008 in Champaign, IL.
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