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Linthorpe Art Pottery was a British pottery that operated between 1878 and 1890 in Linthorpe, Middlesbrough. [1] It produced art pottery , and is especially known for the early collaboration of the designer Christopher Dresser ; many of the early wares have his impressed signature.
Maria Poveka Montoya Martinez (c. 1887 – July 20, 1980) was a Puebloan artist who created internationally known pottery. [1] [2] Martinez (born Maria Poveka Montoya), her husband Julian, and other family members, including her son Popovi Da, examined traditional Pueblo pottery styles and techniques to create pieces which reflect the Pueblo people's legacy of fine artwork and crafts.
In 1899, struggling with health issues due to tuberculosis, Artus left Rookwood and moved to the drier air of Colorado Springs, Colorado.Upon befriending the Holmes family of Chico Basin, he stayed at the HOP Ranch during the summers of 1899, 1900, and 1901 to reduce work stress and regain strength [14] while pursuing his own styles of pottery, centered around the Art Nouveau movement.
A studio potter is one who is a modern artist or artisan, who either works alone or in a small group, producing unique items of pottery in small quantities, typically with all stages of manufacture carried out by themselves. [1] Studio pottery includes functional wares such as tableware, cookware and non-functional wares such as sculpture ...
Janet Darnell Leach (15 March 1918 – 12 September 1997), was an American studio potter working in later life at the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall in England. After studying pottery at Black Mountain, North Carolina under Shoji Hamada, a visiting artisan, she traveled to Japan to work with him. She studied with him for two years and ...
George Ohr was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on July 12, 1857.Ohr's parents were German immigrants who had arrived in New Orleans around 1850, his father had established the first blacksmith shop in Biloxi and his mother ran an early, popular grocery store there.
When Marie traveled to the Indian art shows or the Indian Market in Santa Fe, she often took her family with her. There they met people from around the world who loved to collect their pottery. This instilled a sense of pride and unity throughout the Chino family. Marie's descendants have carried on the tradition of making fine Acoma pottery.
Mintons was a major company in Staffordshire pottery, "Europe's leading ceramic factory during the Victorian era", [1] an independent business from 1793 to 1968. It was a leader in ceramic design, working in a number of different ceramic bodies, decorative techniques, and "a glorious pot-pourri of styles - Rococo shapes with Oriental motifs, Classical shapes with Medieval designs and Art ...