Most ceramic candle holders go for solid walls with a few punched holes, so the fully openwork approach here reads as a different direction entirely. These two morel-inspired lanterns treat the cap as a pierced structure rather than a shell with openings, and candlelight escapes through all of it instead of a few dots.
Each piece is built from the same two parts: a glazed mushroom stem base with a cavity holding a tealight, topped by a conical perforated cap. The first lantern pairs an off-white stem and skirt with a dark charcoal cap, and the glaze on that cap drips in glossy red over the dark ground. The second sits on a white stem, and its cap carries an organic lattice pattern ending in a twisted tip, glazed in amber, caramel and deep red tones.
The results come through where it counts. In the first lantern the flame is visible through the vertical lattice perforations, and in the second the candle lights up the hollow interior and every cutout hole. Photographed outdoors on a moss-covered forest patch and an elevated root, the pieces look very much at home among real woodland fungi.
The two differ noticeably in tone and silhouette, which in my view is the point: the maker set out to experiment with colours and shapes, and the pair shows two ends of that exploration rather than a matched set. One thing remains unanswered for now, namely how the lattice caps were formed and cut. That method alone would be worth hearing about.