Recently, I received a call out of the blue from a lady who wanted to find a home for her late husband’s collection of bonsai pots. Among them were a couple Max Braverman pots from his Pine Garden Pottery days; his Seattle-area workshop where he made bonsai pots between 1986-1998.
The first pot is a shallow oval, cream glaze with brown speckle, 8″x7″x1″
The second is a beautiful Namako blue glaze, with a hint of purple on one side. 7 1/8″x2″
I have been studying bonsai since 1994, in an ever-increasing obsessive fashion. In our last 5 years prior to moving from Iowa to Alabama pursuing a career in the foodservice industry, my bonsai collection was limited to a few varieties that could survive brutal winters outside, or winters under dim light in the dank basement of our humble duplex...my wife puts up with a lot. Including the trailer hitch I put on our brown 1983 Chrysler New Yorker to pull a U-Haul full of trees to Nashville for a 3-month stop along the career path that led us to Alabama. 12 years later, we no longer have the New Yorker; and not a single one of those trees remain on my bench, having given the last holdout to a new club member this summer. I prefer collecting native trees and buying the classical species used in Japan, feeding organic, and reading everything I can get my hands on.
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Beautiful! I recently found a small oval Pine Garden pot at a thrift store in Eugene OR
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Beautiful! I recently found a small oval Pine Garden pot at a thrift store in Eugene OR
Awesome pots! Really these have a differnt and smart look!
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