Beaker culture urns

Around 2500 BCE the neolithic (stone age) population of Britain was almost completely replaced by bronze-age people migrating from Europe. The newcomers made distinctive bell-shaped pottery, and we now know them as the beaker culture. The image below is of a funerary urn. The rings around the top are typical, the loops less so. These urns often have a more bell-shaped top than this example. See second image below.

It was an interesting challenge to see if I could make a wooden vase inspired by this ancient object. Since these people worked copper, it is not too much of a stretch to imagine the shape in copper. This allowed me to play with one of my favourite embellishing techniques; copper paint and oxidising solution.