'Hiraeth' vase or candlestick

Hiraeth.

This beautiful Welsh word refers to that nostalgia, longing, yearning for something that may be intangible - perhaps a place at a certain time with certain people.

C.S. Lewis thought it was a sort of divine homesickness; a longing that could not be satisfied in this world. German has the word 'sehnsucht' for the same sort of thing. Whatever we call it, it's something most humans have experienced.

The glazes on this vase make me think of heathery moors.

It is 11.5cm high.