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A corporate executive decided to increase the number of places that sold their stoneware from just one, A Taste of Kentucky, [7] to three additional locations in Louisville, and one apiece in Bardstown, Kentucky, Owensboro, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio. [8] Since 2007, the company has remained owned by Stephen A. Smith. [4]
Bybee Pottery was a pottery company based in Bybee, a community in Madison County, Kentucky, USA.It was founded in 1809 by Webster Cornelison and members of the same Cornelison family continued to make and sell pottery until 2011.
The Overbeck sisters (Margaret, Hannah, Elizabeth, and Mary Frances) were American women potters and artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement who established Overbeck Pottery in their Cambridge City, Indiana, home in 1911 with the goal of producing original, high-quality, hand-wrought ceramics as their primary source of income.
Jane's understanding of pottery basics through the Uhl Pottery Company, combined with her trip to England, resulted in some of the most unusual and collectible pieces of antique pottery in America. The stock market crash of 1929 hit Mr. Swann very hard, and the family held onto the bulk of the commissioned pieces until an estate sale in 1986.
One of the best examples is from the Angel site in southern Indiana where a fluorite statue was excavated from Mound F in 1940. Dating of the mound suggests the statue was buried there between 1250 and 1400 CE. Another was discovered in the Tolu Site in western Kentucky in 1954. The 25 centimeters (9.8 in) fluorite piece is one of the most ...
The Marblehead Pottery was founded in Marblehead, Massachusetts in 1904 as a therapeutic program by a doctor, Herbert Hall, and taken over the following year by Arthur Eugene Baggs. The pottery's vessels are notable for simple forms and muted glazes in tones ranging from earth colors to yellow-greens and gray-blues. It closed in 1936. [7] [8]
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James C. Watkins (1951 - ) was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1951 and raised in a farming family in Athens, Alabama. [1] He is a ceramic artist living in Lubbock, Texas who has worked with clay for over 40 years. He is known for his large scale double-walled ceramic vessels and laser cut porcelain substrate [2] tiles.