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California pottery includes industrial, commercial, and decorative pottery produced in the Northern California and Southern California regions of the U.S. state of California. Production includes brick , sewer pipe , architectural terra cotta , tile , garden ware, tableware , kitchenware , art ware , figurines , giftware , and ceramics for ...
These were made before the Compton Potters' Arts Guild was formally set up, but many of the same people were involved. The doorway of the Watts Mortuary Chapel. The Compton Potters' Arts Guild was an art pottery, founded by and based at the Surrey home of Scottish artist, Mary Fraser Tytler.
Common Ground: Ceramics in Southern California, 1945-1975. American Museum of Ceramic Art (2013) ISBN 978-0981672854; Chipman, Jack. Collector's Encyclopedia of California Pottery. Collector Books, Paducah, Kentucky (1999) ISBN 1-57432-037-8; Chipman, Jack. California Pottery Scrapbook. Collector Books, Paducah, Kentucky (2004) ISBN 1-57432-407-1
Vernon Kilns was an American ceramic company in Vernon, California, US. In July 1931, Faye G. Bennison purchased the former Poxon China pottery renaming the company Vernon Kilns. [1] Poxon China was located at 2300 East 52nd Street. [2] Vernon produced ceramic tableware, art ware, giftware, and figurines. The company closed its doors in 1958.
American art pottery (1 C, 42 P) R. Rookwood Pottery Company (16 P) ... California pottery; Catalina Pottery; Cemar Clay Products; Ceradyne; Chelsea Keramic Art Works ...
The California Clay Movement (or American Clay Revolution) was a school of ceramic art that emerged in California in the 1950s. [1] The movement was part of the larger transition in crafts from "designer-craftsman" to "artist-craftsman". The editor of Craft Horizons, New York-based Rose Slivka, became an enthusiastic advocate of the movement. [2]
In 1884 he joined the Rookwood Pottery Company, and led the art pottery's decoration department for the next twenty years. [2] [4]In 1903, the Valentiens visited Southern California, staying several months with Anna's brother in Dulzura, a small community southeast of San Diego.
Cemar Pottery, like Bauer, was based in Los Angeles, California. [2] Cemar was part of the larger boom in California pottery during the World War II era when pottery imports from Asia were restricted or banned; a variety of potteries operated in California to keep up with domestic demand. Cemar was one of 13 members of the California Pottery ...