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old hands pottery
old hands pottery

old hands pottery Went to a pottery opening this evening that featured two old hands in Minnesota pottery- Bob Briscoe and Dick Cooter. The pots were great and the place was mobbed!  My purchase decision came down to these three vases by Dick Cooter. All wood fired. All with distinct individual qu…

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06Dec2014


Warren Westerberg Vase.
Warren Westerberg Vase.

 Westerberg  vase. ceramic Warren Westerberg was a Minneapolis-based studio potter decades ago (before I got here). Aside from the beautiful form and glazing, the interior rim is what I love. Not only is the glaze banded but the clay is also combed. That kind of attention to detail is like the pott…

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05Dec2014


Beautiful Ashtray 
Beautiful Ashtray

 beautiful ashtray Hi guys.. thought i would post this beautiful ashtray and see if anyone knows anything about it! i have researched till i am blue in the face and nothing! it is stamped Made in Hungary and then the "V." by Karen …

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18Nov2014


Japanese Vase with Blue Glaze
Japanese Vase with Blue Glaze

Japanese vase  Thomas Schroder said "This Mark is always on the Japanese vase with blue glaze. Who can Help?" Japanese vase with blue glaze …

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18Nov2014


Ceramic Urns
Ceramic Urns

Ceramic Urns  Ceramic urns are considered to be one of the most elegant looking urns available in the market today. A ceramic urn is able to beam up a room and brings on some decorum to any memorial garden. With its exquisite creative work, ceramic urns epitomize the spirit of the person that has p…

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12Nov2014


Ceramic Pottery Unique and Classy
Ceramic Pottery Unique and Classy

Ceramic Pottery Unique and Classy Ceramic pottery is the art of forming or creating something out of clay and this has been around for thousands of years now and the industry still exists until today. The process includes molding the clay and using extreme heat and then it will be decorated by glaz…

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09Nov2014


American Pottery
American Pottery

American Pottery Craft Everyone wants to buy an American made product. Some of the best pottery in the world is made right here in the USA, but you may not know what to look for or where to find it.There are many places that a person can find American made pottery for their home. In reality, you ju…

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08Nov2014


Egyptian Pottery
Egyptian Pottery

Ancient Egyptian Pottery The Egyptians created pottery beginning from primordial times. Even before the construction of pyramids, they were engaged in the making of pottery. The study of pottery sheds tremendous light on the pre dynastic era of ancient Egypt. Ancient Egyptians used pottery in the s…

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07Nov2014


Luxury Pottery 
Luxury Pottery

Luxury Pottery Ceramic  In this day and age the economy is seemingly all doom and gloom. It is certainly more difficult to sell items of luxury like pottery pieces than it was during better financial times. But the key to any business is typically variety. People enjoy having choices and enjoy when…

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07Nov2014


How to Make Pottery
How to Make Pottery

art making pottery When the clay has a specific dryness of around 75 to 85%, it becomes "leather hard", when it can be more easily moulded into shape and to which other pieces can be added. Over the centuries of this trade many tools have been invented to aid in the moulding process, the most impor…

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05Nov2014


Handmade Pottery
Handmade Pottery

Handmade pottery Handmade pottery is one of the oldest crafts known to man with the earliest artistic pottery dating back to 25,000 B.C. give or take a few centuries. The first Pottery crafted for functional purposes, handmade pottery vessels, were used to hold water. All of the ancient pottery dat…

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05Nov2014


Information about Pottery
Information about Pottery

craft pottery Pottery also includes ceramics, earthenware, stoneware and porcelain, all of which are made in potteries.Pottery is made from clay, mostly formed by the hand while it is still soft and wet, and then heated in a kiln at high temperatures to change its material quality, making it hard. …

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04Nov2014


History of Pottery
History of Pottery

History of Pottery The earliest known pottery was produced 25 to 29,000 years before Christ in what is now modern day Czech Republic (where I was born), of a figurine of a naked woman named Venus of Dolni Vestonice. The earliest known pottery vessels were made in Japan in 10,500 BC. Pottery was ind…

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03Nov2014
 
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