Ceramic Sculptural Vessel by Tara Winslow: Fly Away

Porcelain is not supposed to ruffle. Nobody appears to have told this one.

This sculptural vessel, titled Fly away, is glazed porcelain by Tara Winslow, a contemporary work from the United States. Porcelain is an unforgiving clay when worked thin, prone to slumping and cracking in the kiln, which makes these edges something of a dare. Broad, frilled lobes open outward from a low center like some large sea creature. The outsides are a dark pewter, the insides a pale green-white with a finely beaded texture. Forty inches wide, 29 deep and 15.5 high.

It looks as if it might move when you leave the room.