Closed Form Bowls, Vases, Bottles and Hollow Forms

As an object makes the transition between a flat surface (plate or platter) and a sphere, the object passes through a series of shapes that have progressivley smaller openings. These shapes can be described as closed forms, vases, bottles or hollow forms. Please click on an image to take you to a page showing more examples of each type of vessel.

tallvases closed
Natural edge buckeye burl vase Spalted tamarind closed form bowl
bottles hollows
Pear hollow form bottle Curly mango hollow form