ceramics

Ceramics or (French) céramique, A nineteenth-century term, derived from Greek, for pottery and the art of making pottery. In specialist usage, when porcelain is distinguished from pottery, the term ‘ceramics’ is deemed to encompass both arts.

Lucie Rie (1902 – 1995) British Ceramicist

On: September 27, 2022

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Lucie Rie (1902 – 1995) was an Austrian-born British ceramicist. Between 1922-26, she studied fine art, at Kunstgewerbeschule, Vienna, under Michael Powolny. Her most famous works are vases, bottles, and bowls inspired by Japan. Lucie Rie Footed Bowl c. 1951, owned by publisher Susan Shaw. Gold medal for work in the Austrian pavilion at the 1937 Paris ‘Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques clans la Vie Moderne’ Exhibition of her work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.Read More →

Susie Cooper (1902 – 1995) British ceramicist and designer

On: September 26, 2022

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Breakfast in an American middle-class home in the 1940s was often served on dishes designed by English designer Susie Cooper (1902-1995).Read More →

Adelaide Robineau (1865 – 1929) an American Ceramicist

On: September 26, 2022

Tagged: ceramic, Ceramicists, ceramics, female designer, potters, pottery

Adelaide Romineau was an American ceramicist she was born in Middletown, Connecticut. At the time, few women were involved in the technical aspects of ceramic production. It was considered appropriate for women to be decorators only, rather than to be part of more technical pursuits.Read More →

Fujina – Japanese Folk Pottery

On: September 21, 2022

Tagged: ceramics, Japanese Ceramicist, Japanese Design

Fujina pottery is made at Matsue, Shimane. 19th-century products include bluish-green tea bowls and white, yellow, or bluish-green domestic pottery. Later urban work promotes folk art.Read More →

Eric Ravilious (1903 – 1942) British wood engraver & ceramicist

On: August 17, 2022

Tagged: artist, British, British - Ceramics, British Design, British Designers 🇬🇧, ceramic, Ceramic Design, Ceramicist, Ceramicists, ceramics, ceramics - british

Eric William Ravilious was a British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver. He is particularly known for his watercolours of the South Downs and other English landscapes. He served as a war artist, and was the first British war artist to die on active service in World War II. Ravilious studied with Edward Bawden and Charles Mahoney at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London in 1928. He painted a series of marionette-like murals for Morley College, which were destroyed by bombing in 1941.Read More →

Slipware Pottery – what is it?

On: July 26, 2022

Tagged: ceramics, Craft Potter, Design Term, pottery

Slipware is pottery known by its primary decorating method in which slip is added before firing by dipping, painting or splashing on the leather-hard clay body surface. Slip is an aqueous clay body suspension that is a combination of clays and other minerals, such as quartz, feldspar, and mica.Read More →

Vase manufactured by the Eureka Pottery 1883 to 1887

Eureka Pottery – American Ceramics manufacturer

On: July 21, 2022

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The Eureka Pottery was the last commercial pottery constructed during the historic three decades during which potteries were established in Trenton. The company made the most beautiful majolica in Trenton. It was established in 1883 by Leon Weil, who Noah and Charles Boch succeeded. It was closed in 1887 due to fire, the constant enemy of potteries.Read More →

Michael Cardew (1901 – 1983) British Ceramicist

On: July 20, 2022

Tagged: British - Ceramics, British Design, British Designers 🇬🇧, Ceramicist, Ceramicists, ceramics

He learned to throw pottery from William Fishley Holland at the Braunton Pottery, North Devon, 1921—22. In 1923, he met Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada at St. Ives.Read More →

Grand Feu Art Pottery – California

On: July 17, 2022

Tagged: ceramic, Ceramic Design, Ceramicists, ceramics, pottery

Grand Feu Art Pottery, was founded in California by Cornelius Brauckman. Its output was of high quality and aesthetically distinctive. Generically, grand feu is ceramic ware fired at 2500°F (1400°C), maturing its body and glaze simultaneously. Grand feu is both porcelain and gres, and Grand Feu Art Pottery specialises in the latter.Read More →

Edward Lycett (1833 – 1910) British-American Ceramicist

On: July 9, 2022

Tagged: ceramic, Ceramic Design, Ceramicists, ceramics

Edward Lycett (1833 – 1910) was a British Ceramicist. He was born in Newcastle under Lyme. He was professionally active in New York.Read More →

Faience Manufacturing Company – the heart of American ceramics

On: July 9, 2022

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The Faience Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturing company that operated between 1880 – 1892 in the Greenpoint area of Brooklyn, New York. There is little evidence of the remains of the Company as it failed in 1892.Read More →

Laura Knight (1877 – 1970) British Painter and Ceramicist

On: July 2, 2022

Tagged: British, British Design, British Designers 🇬🇧, ceramic, Ceramic Design, Ceramicist, Ceramicists, ceramics

She was a juror of the 1922 Carnegie International competition, Pittsburgh. She designed both the shapes and the decorations for the 1933—34 Circus range of tableware produced by Arthur J. Wilkinson, Burslem, under Clarice Cliff’s supervision.Read More →

Ceramics a gift from the ancients

On: July 1, 2022

Tagged: ceramic, ceramics, Design Term, pottery

Ceramics are objects made of moistened clay, shaped and then baked. All ceramics are Earthenware, terracotta, brick, tile, faience, majolica, stoneware, and porcelain. Ceramicware is decorated with clay inlays, relief patterns on the surface, or incised, stamped or embossed designs. Read More →

Arzberg Porcelain – prestigious German design

On: July 1, 2022

Tagged: ceramic, Ceramic Design, Ceramicist, Ceramicists, ceramics, Ceramics - German, Design firm, German Design 🇩🇪, German Designers 🇩🇪, German 🇩🇪, Germany 🇩🇪, porcelain

Arzberg is regarded as one of the most prestigious porcelain design houses in the world. The definition of good design. Arzberg combines aesthetics, functionality, and durability.Read More →

Blue-dash charger – Design Object

On: June 30, 2022

Tagged: British Design, Ceramic Design, ceramics, ceramics - british, porcelain

Blue-dash charger is a large circular earthenware dish made in England (especially Bristol and Lambeth) in the late 17th century and early 18th. The name derives from the dashes of blue around the rims.Read More →

Thrown Pottery and the pottery wheel

On: June 30, 2022

Tagged: ceramic, Ceramicists, ceramics, P, potter, pottery

A leading development in the world of craft and design that took some time toRead More →

Christian Joachim (1870 – 1943) Danish Ceramicist restrained neo-classical forms

On: June 28, 2022

Tagged: Ceramicists, ceramics, danish ceramics, Danish Design, danish designers 🇩🇰, Denmark, Designer, designers, Nordic Design

Christian Joachim was a Danish Ceramicist (1870-1943). Between 1889 he studied at the Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, Copenhagen.

Between 1897 and 1900, Joachim made ceramics with George Jensen in a workshop outside Copenhagen. Between 1901 to 1933 worked for the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory, where Arno Malinowski sometimes decorated his restrained neoclassical forms. Read More →

Suehari Fukami (b.1947) Japanese Studio Potter

On: June 26, 2022

Tagged: Ceramic Design, Ceramicists, ceramics, Japanese Ceramicist, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵

Suehari Fukami (b.1947) is a Japanese studio potter based in Kyoto. He works in the bluish-white porcelain known in Japanese as seihakuji, developed in the Song dynasty JINGDEZEN wares. Read More →

Edward Taylor (1838 – 1912) and Ruskin Pottery

On: June 22, 2022

Tagged: arts and craft, British, British Design, British Designers 🇬🇧, ceramic, Ceramic Design, Ceramicists, ceramics, potter, pottery

While it was prone to cynicism in the 20th century – for example, it was often pointed out that Morris’ handmade goods were too costly for anyone other than the wealthy he claimed to despise. However, through a fertile and now highly valued time of applied art, the Arts & Crafts wove a distinctive pattern.Read More →

Jonina Gudhnadottir (b.1943) Icelandic Ceramicist

On: June 15, 2022

Tagged: ceramic, Ceramic Design, Ceramicist, Ceramicists, ceramics

Jonina Gudhnadottir (b.1943) is an Icelandic ceramicist. She is based professionally in Reykavik. Her work has been seen in many exhibitions.Read More →

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