Funny Looking Bottles #2

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Bottles are regarded as ‘closed shape’ vessels in pottery meant for storing and pouring liquids. While glass and plastics are increasingly favoured for their transparency and recyclability, ceramic bottles are still retained in many situations. This is true of Japanese tokkuri or sake bottles, for instance, that can be directly warmed up with its sake contents. In this light-hearted interpretation of the bottle form, Dr Iskandar has retained the bottle’s features of an elongated neck and small aperture-mouth for regulating the pouring of liquids. He has, however, moved away from symmetrical bodies, producing instead the eccentric forms of Funny Looking Bottles that appear to be dancing or in animated interaction with each other. Their irregular-shaped bodies are decorated with ‘fluting’ – where grooves are made on the clay surface using an instrument. As a further aesthetic element, each neck is wrapped with thin bamboo strips and tied with a wooden tag bearing Dr Iskandar’s sakura seal.