Martin Howard on thu 11 jan 01
Can Clayarters provide further information on this information passed to me
by Pam Rider, a fellow Quaker?
Have others seen this Basalt ware?
Martin Howard
Webb's Cottage Pottery
Woolpits Road, Great Saling
BRAINTREE, Essex CM7 5DZ
England
martin@webbscottage.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pam Rider"
To:
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 4:48 PM
Subject: Other Friends Throw
> Dear Martin:
>
> Thought of you as I read the following in a New York Times article on a
new
> Meetinghouse near Houston, Texas:
>
> The Live Oak Friends Meeting House was an opportunity to realize
> an important ambition for the artist integrating his art with his
> faith through the design of a working place of worship.
>
> Mr. Turrell has examined the shape of belief before, in a set of
> ceramics named "Lapsed Quaker Ware," which he produced in 1998 with
> Nicholas Mosse, an Irish potter. Both men were at the time lapsed
> Quakers.
>
> "We had both become quite interested in our backgrounds again,"
> said Mr. Turrell, who was raised as a Quaker in California. The
> black basalt dishes, based on 18th- century forms, recalled
> housewares advertised at that time as "basalt for Quakers and
> funerals."
>
> " `Sad glass,' or gray glassware, went to Quakers, too," Mr.
> Turrell added.
>
> Best,
>
> Pam Rider
> Trying to walk cheerfully on the Earth
> tsktsk@home.com
>
>
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