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Potted bottle The Waterman and Urška

Potted bottle The Waterman and Urška is a product of pottery art clay design by Polona Zajc. It is a pottery sculpture of a dancing couple, which depicts the myth of the water man from the Ljubljanica River, as depicted by France Prešeren. It is made by hand, from liquid black stoneware cast in a plaster model. The interior is glazed with a glaze suitable for household use. The exterior is glazed in different shades to represent the green colour of the Ljubljanica River, into which Urška and Waterman danced. The pot is fired at a temperature of 1220°C. It is 14,5 cm high and the volume is approx. 150 ml.

Pottery art clay design by Polona Zajc

Polona Zajc's Pottery art clay design also has a clay souvenir category in its collection of clay products. The images and characters depicted on them are reminiscent of stories and images from the past from different parts of Slovenia. They are made by hand from different types of clay and in different design techniques. They can be turned on a potter's spindle, as impressions of images in clay, or as vessels cast in plaster moulds with liquid clay to give them their shape. This is how the pottery of The Waterman and Urška was created. The plaster mould that gives shape to the flask is made from a handmade figurine in the Pottery Art workshop.

Potted bottle the Water man and Urška

Potted bottle the Water Man and Urška is an image of a dancing couple who, at a Ljubljana Sunday dance, were forever cast into the Ljubljanica river, which flows through the capital of Slovenia. The myth of the water man who seduced the beautiful and captivating Ljubljana woman Urška was depicted by the greatest Slovenian poet, France Prešeren, in his poem The Water man. Thus, a piece of rich Slovenian culture is presented in the form of a handmade pottery bottle, The Water Man and Urška. They are depicted on their separate sides, yet close together, as they danced and danced faster and faster and finally danced into the waves of the Ljubljanica River. And so became the myth of Ljubljana.