Product of the day : Neolithic Vadastra Amphora 

   Beauty has sense only among people, and more than that, only for those able to perceive it, and in this Amphora, it is amplified and transformed by the creative force and power of construction of the potter artist. Recipe of love, the soul, the potter artist’s skill, and drops of genius build and decorate this Neolithic type vessel. The clay, forged in the form of Vadastra Amphora, bears on its shoulders and in it, the Neolithic energy of the characteristic silhouette and decorations that ennobles it. Double helix, the symbol of searching the infinite, angle or simple spiral are emblems transposing into another era, marked by the passing of time, symbolized by the wolf’s teeth as a sign of energy conservation, then swirled to be transformed by the meandering spiral in good. Black and white contrast between Vadastra black pottery obtained by a special, secret, technique, and kaolin which defines and enhances the embedded symbols, fascinates. Also fascinating is the form that hides the story of vessels for storage and preservation of grain, whose symbolism that masters the incrustations goes beyond the art-lovers consciousness.

Approx. dimensions:

Height=55cm/21,6in;

Bottom diameter=18cm /7,08in;

Middle diameter= 42cm/16.53 in;

Upper diameter= 21cm/8,26in.

Aprox. Weight: 13 kg/28,6 lb

 

 

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Product of the day : Big Neolithic Vessel of Vadastra Pottery 2 

 

   This big Neolithic vessel would be a unique gift through its beauty and symbolism. The black pottery of Vadastra is adorned by the potter artist with a spiral, symbol of some models found in the nature, like the shells, in a Neolithic way. This is a work of art kneaded by the potter artist’s hands, from the local clay, from Vadastra, and burned in an oven, without oxygen, to imprint the black unique colour to the vessel. Thanks to their design, these types of vessels can be place anywhere in your home, because their presence purify the space, thanks to the shapes that “are playing’’ on the black background. We are proud to offer you a Vadastra pottery vessel, built with so much devotion and much more passion in a Neolithic pattern.

Aprox. Dimensions:

Height=40cm/15,7in;

Bottom diameter=18cm/ 7,08in;

Middle diameter=40cm/15,7in ;

Upper diameter=35 cm/13,77in;

Approx. Weight=9 kg/19,8 lb.

 

 

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Product of the day :Big Neolithic Vessel of Vadastra Pottery

  

  The happiness doesn’t need so much to exist. A handful of clay, an extreme care to show off the technique over 7500 years old, a seething passion that lies in potter artist who brings to life his own children. It says it's so simple, right? Yet behind the eye that sees beauty, is a hard work, attention to detail, a combination of intellectual lines, a play of symbols. Nothing is thrown at random, there's no extra line. Old Celtic Symbols rich the black velvet dish: wolf's teeth on edge, spiral and angle spiral. The perfect gift for a lofty spirit!

 Aprox. Dimensions:

Height=40cm/15,74in;

Bottom diameter=18cm/7,08in ;

Middle diameter=40cm/15,7in ;

Upper diameter= 30cm/11,81in;

Approx. Weight=9 kg/19,8 lb.

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Product of the day : Big Neolithic Vessel of Vadastra Pottery with Spirals

  A beautiful black ceramic bowl is decorated with three reasons: the wolf teeth, spiral - solar motif and angular spiral. Can be used only as decorative objects or it can found an use – for example it can serve as a flowerpot. If you use as a pot of flowers you will notice that the flowers will be much healthier and more beautiful than those kept in simple vessels. The effect that it has the spiral is the same that a pyramid has in three-dimensional space, but the design works in a two-dimensional space. Try and you will enlighten yourself !

Dimensions:

Height=40cm/15,7in;

Bottom diameter= 18cm/7,08in;

Middle diameter=40cm/15,7in ;

Upper diameter=30cm/11,81in.

Approx. Weight=10 kg/22 lb

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Product of the day : Neolithic Woman-shaped Vase 

  With his hands the potter artist kneaded the warm clay and gave it, through the form and the symbols, warm impressions of a woman. The spiral, symbol of fecundity, engraved on female idols, activates all the centres of life and fertility, indicating the movement in a specific unit of order. The art objects don’t just fascinate with their appearance, but also have the miraculous effect of a form that holds energy. Beyond the form, these works of art have their own energy, which radiates to you, charging you with their beneficial vigour. The shapes, the signs don’t have a static existence; they are real forces of the full of life nature.

Approx. dimensions:

Height=80cm/31,49in;

Bottom diameter=17cm/6,69in;

Middle diameter=32cm/12,59in;

Upper diameter=12cm/4,72in.

Aprox. Weight=10 kg/19,8 lb

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Product of the day : Tall Vadastra Vase with Neolithic Motifs 

   The return to the past means most often a return to the science that we rediscover today through many efforts. All Vadastra potteries bearing this spiral inlaid on them could be used in antiquity for food storage. Spiral effect is the pyramid effect transmitted in two-dimensional so that the food was tasty and preserved longer. This vase of great beauty and refinement can be the ideal gift for someone who appreciates an art object. Made by an old technique for over 7,500 years, a Neolithic technique, the vase captures the soul of the potter artist, because its form is given only by the hands of the craftsman, it is not obtained using the potter's wheel. Both form and technique used for blackening ceramic make this object a cocktail of passion and concrete, where concrete is stressed by the shape that clay takes under the force which lies in the devotion of the potter artist. The motifs that decorate the vase have profound significance, the spiral being the impulse of the ascension, that which opens the infinite. Spiral represents the repeated rhythms of life, the cyclical nature of evolution, the finite permanence constantly confronted with fleeting movement.

Approx. dimensions

Height=90cm/35,43in;

Bottom diameter=18cm/7,08in;

Middle diameter=37cm/14,56in;

Upper diameter=6cm/3,36in.

Aprox. Weight: 11 kg/24,2 lb

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Product of the day : The Neolithic Goddess of the Fertility 

  

   The potter artist’s hands speak with the clay and submit it his desire to conceive a Goddess of Fertility, a form that bears in her the creative energy. The potter artist is ’’playing’’ using the pre-Christian symbolism like the wolf’s teeth or the zigzag. The work of art, made of black pottery, burned in a special oven, with no oxygen, to gain this unique colour is beautified by the Neolithic elements. The Goddess shape is similar to those found in Cucuteni culture, the difference between the two cultures, Cucuteni and Vadastra, being realized only by colours. Specific to Vadastra culture is also the play with well-defined lines. The thirst for beautiful remains a continue constant for human spirit needs. Refined decorated with incisions and encrustation with kaolin, the Goddess of Fertility or the Great Mother imposes an enigmatic note to the space, with the figure that only stands, and the corpulence that stands out to attract the eye on the statue role and that is to be blessed with fertility beneficial forces.

 

  Approx. dimensions:

Height=59cm/23,22in;

Width=10cm/3,93in;

Bottom diameter=39cm/15,35in;

Middle diameter=37cm/14,56in;

Upper diameter=6cm/2,36in.

Aprox. Weight: 9 kg/19,8 lb

 

 

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Product of the day : Vessel Decorated with Two Iguanas 

 The universal movement is in humans. The potter artist brings it to life by printing it on the burned pots. The Spiral, sign of the regenerative energy, appears in the hair’s whirlwind from the head, in the animal and vegetal porosity, in the unseen life. Through its design, this work of art brings the nature and its energy one more step, closer to you.

Approx. dimensions:

Height=32cm/12,59in;

Bottom diameter=8cm/3,14in;

Middle diameter=32cm/12,59in;

Upper diameter=15 cm/5,9in;

Aprox. Weight=2kg/3,5 lb.

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Product of the day : Fruit Bowl

 Bowl with foot which wears symbols of a perpetuate movement, the spiral, sign of the regenerative energy. To play the tumult vortex the potter artist incised the double helix on ceramics. In the Celtic tradition, the Spiral was the symbol of fire. This bowl can be used as an excellent decorative object, or it can be used as a fruit bowl. Also, when it is used as a fruit bowl, the energy given by the spiral will be transferred to you through the fruits that you will be putting in.

Approx. dimensions:

Height=25cm/9,84in;

Bottom diameter=12cm/4,72in;

Middle diameter=27cm/10,62in;

Upper diameter=25cm/9,84in;

Aprox. Weight=3 kg/6,6 lb.

 

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Product of the day : Straight Neolithic Vase

   

  The angular spiral beautifies pots made of burned clay, according to the Neolithic Culture of Vadastra. Before becoming a decor for humans, the geometric signs fulfil some functions of storage and transmission of knowledge. This art object is by itself a message, a poem of geometry, through which the human puts in value his spiritual wealth, his intellectual ascension.

Approx. dimensions:

Height=27cm/10.6in;

Bottom diameter=11cm/4.3in;

Middle diameter=11.5cm /4.5in;

Upper diameter=11cm/4.3in.

Aprox. Weight: 1,5 kg/3,3 lb

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Product of the day : Decorative Plate 

 Any art devotee is delighted and astonished when he/she sees this Neolithic decorative plate. The Earth signs, the wolf teeth and the spirals, which are searching the infinite, are making this decorative plate so special. The circle - the plate itself has the form of a circle - is representing the form of the perfection, but only the spiral strives to open the gates of the absolute perfection, in a continuous move, towards the infinite. The energy of this object moods at its first view, but when you also own it, the beauty will always support your spiritual side of your profound self.

Approx. dimensions:

Height: 3,5cm/1,73in;

Diameter: 23cm/9,05in;

Aprox. Weight: 1 kg/2,2 lb

 

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Product of the day : Tall Plate 

 Found in all cultures, the spiral, even in its angular shape, like you can see on this plate, is a great motif. Its role is not just to be an ornament; it has a very important dimension in decoding some forces which the ancestors of the ’’civilized’’ human from our days knew very well. Like in the three-dimensional space where exists the famous pyramidal effect which has already proved its qualities, also in the two-dimensional space, the spiral effect still exists. These types of pottery vessels, adorned in the Neolithic way, don’t satisfy just the eye, with their beauty and with their simplicity, but also they satisfy the functional capacity by the fact that anything is kept in these types of pots has a much longer lifetime and freshness that you can see it even with your eyes closed. It can represent the perfect gift for everyone, because, thanks to its design, this Neolithic plate is unique and special in the same time. It is unique, because of its Neolithic carved symbols and special of to the positive energy that it emits.

Approx. dimensions:

Height= 10cm/3,9in;

Bottom diameter=8cm/3,14in;

Upper diameter= 17cm/6,69in;

Aprox. Weight: 1,2 kg/2,6 lb.

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Product of the day : Black Vadastra Bowl

 A black pottery bowl of Vadastra, decorated with spirals, it seems a simple decor. Buying it, you do not purchase just a handful of clay, but an entire culture, an old technique for over 7,500 years, ceramist skill and passion sprang from his most hidden intimate parts of the spirit. On spiral that beautifies the Neolithic bowl, we find a strong evolution of a force... starts from a point and surrounds the entire area, possessing the clay! It can represent more than a special gift for a special person; it can be a unique decorative object, linked by the Neolithic tradition and Vadastra Culture.

Approx. Dimensions:

Height=5.5in/14cm;

Bottom diameter=3in/8cm;

Middle diameter=8in/21cm;

Upper diameter=6.3in/16cm;

Approx. Weight: 1,5 kg/3,3 lb.

 

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Product of the day : Small Black Vadastra Bowl

   Bowl made of black Vadastra pottery adorned with Celtic decorations, like wolf teeth and spiral. Spiral, this figure which appears in all cultures, is a light, opened and optimistic motif, expressing the appearance of circular motion gushing from a point of origin and maintaining the movement forever. Having this unique bowl, with its magic colours and Neolithic motifs, in your home, the form and the spiral carved on it will recharge your battery every morning, and will ensure your good mood every day.

Approx. Dimensions:

Height=6in/15cm;

Bottom diameter=2.7in/7cm;

Middle diameter=7.8in/20cm;

Upper diameter=5in/13cm.

Aprox.Weight: 1,2 kg / 2,6 lb

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Pottery from Vadastra present in The Cambridge Ancient History;Plates to Volume III written by John Boardman.

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Neolithic Vadastra Pottery

     Every land has its own spirit, and our Romanian one is filled with spirituality and tradition. One of the traditional lodes is represented and disclosed by the ceramics that originate from the most ancient times. Three essential elements: soil, water and fire – the soul of each potter – take shape and enjoy a great admiration even in our days.

Pottery, situated between craftsmanship and art, is inherited by Romanian people from our Neolithic ancestors ever since the earliest times. Being at the border between craftsmanship and art, more precisely between utility and materialization of some artistic traits, all vessels, no matter of their kind, embrace artistic virtues that originate from a real science, from the imagination of the craftsman, from the difficult and not at all easy mastery of the techniques.

  The force which these objects impose themselves by, objects that most people consider them to be art objects, resides not in the dead brilliance of one of the objects made via an industrialized process, but it springs from the full of vitality meaning that the hands of the potters give to the clay, ennobling it by their own effort and suffering. The pottery, be what it may - pots, jugs, mugs, bowls, vases, statues, etc. – wear the live essence of the potter and of the soil out of which they are created from. Nowadays, via modern methods, pottery can be tested in order to identify their origin based on the fact that each shaped piece of clay wears a certain magnetism that can be measured and that indicates the area which the soil was selected from. These kinds of pottery are live objects. (The archaeomagnetic method, which is based on the fact that the burnt clay has an important property – that of memorizing while cooling the magnetic field of the place where the cooking is done. Consequently, the archaeomagnetic method can be used only for burnt clay objects that were not moved after burning, such as pots found in ceramics’ cooking ovens or fireplaces or clay walls of a house that burned and crashed down.)

The effort of the potter begins when selecting the soil, a place known only by him; the soil is brought to the fireplace where it begins to be cleaned, leavened, kneaded, shaped, dried, encrusted and burned. 
  Thus, the best quality clay is brought home and left for leavening for several weeks. During this process, the clay is minced and watered at a certain time interval. Then the clay is cut in large pieces, beaten with the mallet and watered.
  These clay pieces, also known as pies, are brought in the workshop and placed on a wooden platform. Afterwards it is being repeatedly kneaded with the feet, then with the hands, until it gets a greasy aspect. The clay is then cut into slices with a knife, pieces that are also kneaded and beaten with the mallet so as to obtain a homogenous paste. When the potter considers that the paste is good, he divides it into round and equal shape cobs. The leavening and the kneading are considered to be among the most important operations, being careful and laborious but in the same time ensuring the quality of the products. The clay cobs get then on the shaping table. For the Vadastra ceramics, the pottery knows a certain and special technique, which does not imply using the potter’s wheel, but a string and the artist’s hands.

   „I lift the pot with the string. First of all I create the bottom of the pot, which is similar to a pie, then I make a string that I place as if a spiral and, with the help of this, I lift the walls of the pot, always pressing and making it uniform. After lifting the pot, I smooth the pot and decorate it with various motives: simple spiral, double spiral, wolf fangs – simple and double, zigzag wolf fangs. These represent the continuity of life on Earth! I then leave it to dry for several days and afterwards I cook it in the oven at 900 degrees Celsius in order to obtain its specific black colour. When removing from the oven, I secure the kaolin on the walls of the pot which has the role of emphasizing the decoration.” the craftsman says.
  Different hand-made pottery using ancient methods and techniques similar to those from the Neolithic period discovered in Vadastra area.
  The pottery with handles, amphora and figurines made by Cococi Ionel from Vadastra, are decorated with lines that are identical to those from the Neolithic period. His works have awakened a great interest among experts from all over the world, who welcome the revitalization of the old Poterry center in Vadastra. The workshop is held at his farm house in Vadastra, a very old area with incredible traditions and customs, near the right bank of Danube, in Olt county, Romania.

“The pottery artisan Ionel Cococi is today our only guide through time to our «ancient roots».” Ph. D. Zefir Ghencea.

 

Ionel Cococi 

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