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2018 | Unique pieces

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Fragment(s) | The bottle edition | Series 01 to 06

Exploring renewal and reinvention

This special edition of Fragment(s) called The bottle edition is a library of 72 porcelain bottles – all unique yet similar. The seemingly deconstructed shapes chronicle the history, breakage and decay of six distressed ceramic production moulds we collected at an abandoned bottle production facility in Jingtao Cichang, an old factory area of Jingdezhen, known as the Chinese capital of porcelain. We have cast new pieces from these old moulds to reveal the beauty and poetics in their physical deterioration and to celebrate what would otherwise be discarded.

With each cast we produce, the bottles bear less of a resemblance to their original appearance as the moulds continue to erode and break down. The six shapes transform and evolve into new ones whilst retaining an archetypal half as we carefully and intentionally keep 50% of the mould intact as a tribute to what the forms used to look like. Our ‘making process’ perpetuates and elaborates the designs the factory was producing – it gives new life to the moulds, turning flaws into a desirable design and the manufacturing of identical pieces into the production of individual ones.

In each piece we’ve also singled out a fragment or two of the broken moulds which have been given a colour that accentuates the parts of the shape that have changed over the course of making the installation. The colours, taken straight from the COS collection, speak to the history of ceramic production Jingdezhen is famous for – blue and white and celadon.

COS x Julie & Jesse

COS Queen's road Central, Hong Kong
Art Basel
2018

COS x Julie & Jesse

COS Queen's road Central, Hong Kong
Art Basel
2018

COS x Julie & Jesse

Fragment(s) | The bottle edition | Series 01
White biscuit porcelain, tinted slip, clear glaze
W 15-16 x D 15-16 x H 19-21 cm per vessel
2018

COS x Julie & Jesse

Fragment(s) | The bottle edition | Series 02
White biscuit porcelain, tinted slip, clear glaze
W 15-16 x D 15-16 x H 19-21 cm per vessel
2018

COS x Julie & Jesse

COS Basel, Switzerland
Art Basel
2018

COS x Julie & Jesse

COS Basel, Switzerland
Art Basel
2018

COS x Julie & Jesse

Fragment(s) | The bottle edition | Series 03
White biscuit porcelain, tinted slip, clear glaze
W 15-16 x D 15-16 x H 19-21 cm per vessel
2018

COS x Julie & Jesse

Fragment(s) | The bottle edition | Series 04
White biscuit porcelain, tinted slip, clear glaze
W 15-16 x D 15-16 x H 19-21 cm per vessel
2018

COS x Julie & Jesse

COS Basel, Switzerland
Art Basel
2018

COS x Julie & Jesse

COS Queen's road Central, Hong Kong
Art Basel
2018

COS x Julie & Jesse

Fragment(s) | The bottle edition | Series 05
White biscuit porcelain, tinted slip, clear glaze
W 15-16 x D 15-16 x H 19-21 cm per vessel
2018

COS x Julie & Jesse

Fragment(s) | The bottle edition | Series 06
White biscuit porcelain, tinted slip, clear glaze
W 15-16 x D 15-16 x H 19-21 cm per vessel
2018

WE | 我們

Terra Immobile

Pocket Garden

Without leaving your room

Terra Mobile

Déshabillé | Series 04

Fragment(s) | The Bottle edition | Series 12

Fragment(s) | The Bottle edition | Series 11

Fragment(s) | The limited edition | Vase A | Series 02

Déshabillé | Series 03

COS x Julie & Jesse | Erosion

Erosion | Library of 600

Fragment(s) | The Bottle edition | Series 10

Fragment(s) | The Bottle edition | Series 09

Erosion | Library of 300

Fragment(s) | The Chicago edition

Déshabillé | Series 02

Déshabillé | Series 01

Irony

Clay Bodies

Erosion | Library of 500

Partial

Fragment(s) | The limited edition | Vase A

2by4

Fragment(s) | The limited edition | Vase B

Fragment(s) | The limited edition | Vase C

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