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Jugtown Pottery was founded in 1921 [2] by Jacques and Juliana Busbee, artists from Raleigh, North Carolina, who in 1917 discovered an orange pie dish and traced it back to Moore County. There, they found a local tradition of utilitarian pottery in orange, earthenware , and salt glazes .
Owens Pottery was founded by J. B. Owens in Roseville, Ohio, in 1885. [1] In 1891 it moved to Zanesville , where Owens built a new factory on a site with its own rail spur. [ 2 ] It began producing art pottery in 1896, when it introduced the Utopian line with botanical decorations under a brown glaze. [ 3 ]
Owens Pottery of North Carolina, also known as Original Owens Pottery is the oldest, continuously-operating pottery in North Carolina. [1] [2] It sells a variety of traditional, functional clay products and is best known for its difficult-to-produce fire red glazed pottery. Owens Pottery is currently owned and operated by Boyd Owens.
Owens Pottery may refer to: J. B. Owens Pottery Company - a defunct Ohio pottery that operated around the turn of the 20th century "Original" Owens Pottery - the ...
Edwin Bennett (March 6, 1818 – June 13, 1908), born in Newhall, Derbyshire, was an English American pioneer of the pottery industry and art in the United States, [1] and founder of the Edwin Bennett Pottery Company of Baltimore, Maryland.
The pottery may have been used as cookware, manufactured by hunter-gatherers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is also possible to extrapolate likely developments based on methods used by latter peoples. Among the first of the techniques believed to be used by Stone Age civilizations were improvements to basic roasting .
Because pottery is so durable, pottery and shards of pottery survive for millennia at archaeological sites, and are typically the most common and important type of artifact to survive. Many prehistoric cultures are named after the pottery that is the easiest way to identify their sites, and archaeologists develop the ability to recognise ...
This list of museums in North Carolina is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.