500 BOWLS

Five hundred inspiring variations on the simple, functional bowl will fire any potter's imagination. Displayed on each page are bowl s that reinvent and reinterpret the form, and use techniques from across the globe and through the centuries. More importantly, ever y piece, such as Kate Maury's wheel-thrown porcelain, Stephen F. Fabrico's slab-built bowl with handles, and Ruchika Madan's stonewa re Fruit Bowl, testifies to the artist's boundless inventiveness. Captions give each bowl's size, with details on its material and g lazes.