Gien Pottery Factory
2022-01-22
Gien Pottery. This company is often known simply as Gien Pottery, after its location in thatRead More →
Edward Taylor (1838 – 1912) and Ruskin Pottery
2021-12-08
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 →
New Wave Clay: Ceramic Design, Art and Architecture
2021-11-28
Throughout the twentieth century, ceramics was broadly divided into two sectors. Studio pottery, which was a reaction against the mass-made wares of the industrial revolution, and fine art by contemporary artists, who just happened to use clay in their practice but rejected many of its traditional codes of practice.Read More →
Shoji Hamada (1894 – 1978) Japanese Potter
2021-11-28
Shoji Hamada, along with Bernard Leach, was one of the key figures in the development of studio pottery in the 20th century. His influence both in England and the US as well as in his native Japan cannot be underestimated. Read More →
Stig Lindberg (1916 – 1982) – Swedish Ceramic, Designer, Painter
2021-11-24
Stig Lindberg (1916 – 1982) was a Swedish ceramic, glass, textile, industrial designer, and painter and illustrator. During his long career with the Gustavsberg pottery factory, Lindberg produced whimsical studio ceramics and graceful tableware lines, making him one of Sweden’s most important postwar designers. Read More →
Taxile Maxmilien Doat (1851 – 1938) – French ceramicist
2021-11-23
Taxile Maxmilien Doat (1851 – 1938) was a French ceramicist. He was born in Albi, and he was active in University City, Missouri.Read More →
Lucien Levy Dhurmer (1865 – 1953) a French Ceramicist
2021-11-23
Levy-Dhurmer may have been responsible for the rediscovery of the metallic lustre glaze technique used in Middle Eastern ceramics from the 9th century and in Hispano-Moresque pottery of the 15th century. However, the sheen on pieces by Massier and Levy-Dhunner has not lasted. He used primarily light-coloured earthenware with gold highlights and sombre-glazed stoneware. Read More →
Anders B. Liljefors (1923 – 1970) Swedish Ceramicist
2021-11-18
Anders Liljefors was a Swedish ceramicist. He initially concerned himself with household ware, discovered a new method of casting ceramics in a sand mould, and worked feverishly to extract new and unexpected effects from this material during the later years of his life.Read More →
École de Nancy – Art Nouveau artisans and designers
2021-11-14
Between 1890 and 1914, the École de Nancy, or Nancy School, was a group of Art Nouveau artisans and designers based in Nancy, France. The furniture designer Louis Majorelle, the cabinet maker and glass artist Jacques Grüber, the glass and furniture designer Émile Gallé, and the Daum crystal factory were important contributors.Read More →
Susie Cooper (1902 – 1995) British ceramicist and designer
2021-11-09
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 →
Sgraffito – Design Term
2021-11-08
Sgraffito is a scratched pottery decoration, first used in China, which spread across Europe via Persia. The vessel is immersed in slip, and then the decoration is scratched on the surface to reveal the darker body below. It was often used with maiolica from Italy.Read More →
Charles John Noke (1858 – 1941) British ceramicist
2021-11-07
He modelled vases (including Columbis and Diana) and figures from 1893 to 1898. (including Holbein and Rembrandt vases). With Cuthbert Bailey and John Slater, he experimented with the reproduction of Sung, Ming, and early Ch’ing dynasty blood-red rouge flambé and sang-de-boeuf glazes from the late 1890s to the early 1900sRead More →
Marblehead Pottery (1904 – 1936) an American Pottery
2021-11-06
Herbert J. Hall founded the Marblehead Pottery in 1904 as one of several “handcraft shops” that offered occupational therapy to “nervously worn outpatients.” The shops specialised in hand-weaving, woodcarving, and metalwork, with pottery being the most popular.Read More →
Lorinda Epply (1874 – 1951) American ceramicist
2021-10-26
She attended the Cincinnati Art Academy and Columbia University in New York, where she studied ceramics.Read More →
William Bower Dalton (1868 – 1965) British watercolourist and potter
2021-10-04
He was the principal of Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts from 1899 to 1919. He was the curator of the South London Art Gallery during and after this time. Dalton was just 31 years old when he arrived at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in 1899. He’d done well to land the position in such a competitive environment – there were 71 other candidates.Read More →
Moorcroft British (ca. 1913) art pottery manufacturer
2021-05-31
William Moorcroft started Moorcroft, a British art pottery manufacturer, in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, in 1913.Read More →
Practical Pottery: 40 Pottery Projects for Creating and Selling Mugs, Cups, Plates, Bowls, and More
2021-04-20
#1 Bestseller in Pottery & Ceramics and Sculpture and #1 Most Wished for in Pottery & Ceramic CraftRead More →
Slipware Pottery – what is it?
2021-03-28
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 →
Frederick Hurten Rhead (1880 – 1942) British Ceramicist
2021-03-16
Frederick Hurten Rhead was an English-born American potter and ceramic artist. He was born into a family of potters and designers. He received his English pottery training before moving to the United States in 1902. Read More →
Faber-Castell Art Pottery Studio for Kids
2021-03-10
Full POTTERY STUDIO: Includes everything you’ll need to get started with pottery! A pottery wheel, 3 pounds of clay, a 6-piece toolset, a craft apron, a table cover, 12 pots of paint, glaze, sponge, 2 paintbrushes, illustrated directions, and an idea is all included in this kit.Read More →