Earl Brunner on fri 19 dec 03
Handbuilt, nasty dark green underglaze with fake native American designs
ala petroglyph style on white earthenware. Dated 1967, for a Boy Scout
merit badge, One of the very first things I ever made from clay and
started me on my potter's path.
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From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On Behalf Of Fredrick
Paget
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 5:25 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Re: Signing again - oldest pot
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>When did you start potting?? If you are a a "old-timer" what is the
>oldest piece of pottery that you made that you own? Just of
>possible interest?? Sam in Daly City
There is a spoon rest on our kitchen stove that has been there in
use forever. The signing and date on the back:
"FWP
60"
Hand built of low fire clay with a green art glaze no doubt with lead.
Fred
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From Fred Paget, Marin County, California, USA
fredrick@well.com
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Sam or Mary Yancy on fri 19 dec 03
Perhaps I would get better sales if I dated all my work as June 1886 or something like that and sold them as antiques? Two years ago wouldn't work but 100+ years??
When did you start potting?? If you are a a "old-timer" what is the oldest piece of pottery that you made that you own? Just of possible interest?? Sam in Daly City
Fredrick Paget on fri 19 dec 03
>
>When did you start potting?? If you are a a "old-timer" what is the
>oldest piece of pottery that you made that you own? Just of
>possible interest?? Sam in Daly City
There is a spoon rest on our kitchen stove that has been there in
use forever. The signing and date on the back:
"FWP
60"
Hand built of low fire clay with a green art glaze no doubt with lead.
Fred
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From Fred Paget, Marin County, California, USA
fredrick@well.com
Kurt Wild on sat 20 dec 03
At 05:25 PM 12/19/03 -0800, you wrote:
>>When did you start potting?? If you are a a "old-timer" what is the
>>oldest piece of pottery that you made that you own? Just of
>>possible interest?? Sam in Daly City
I have a very small pinch pot, with writing on the bottom in pen which
says: "Kurt Wild, 7B Art, Mar. 22, 1944, Miss Post". That's a 59 year old
pot. I was in 7th grade Steuben Junior High, Milwaukee, WI.
Kurt
Lee Love on sun 21 dec 03
This topic got me thinking back. At first, I only thought back to the
oldest pots I still have in my possession: I have two from 1990: one of
my first pots at the begining of my clay studies: coil and paddled, about 2
feet tall, burnished with iron with fish scraffitoed inot the surface. I
also have the life sized Hawaiian shirt I made at the same time that is also
decorated with fish in colored underglazes.
But Kurt's mention of the pot from 59 years ago made had me recalling
my first experience with clay, back in 1958. My girlfriend, Deana (an
older woman of 6 years old) thought we should get some clay from the sled
hill that was recently made taller. The kids of my neighborhood called the
hill Pork Chop Hill, after the movie. We were much influenced by movies
and television. We dug some clay from the hill across the street
from Deana's house and took it to her house. She said she'd seen her
older brother take clay and bake it in the oven. I asked her how we could
decorate our work. She said she had white shoe polish we could paint with
before we baked the clay. She probably had white shoe polish for her
saddle shoes. I thought about what I could make that was white. I
probably saw Gregory Peck in Moby Dick as Captain Ahab, either at the movies
or on the T.V. I decided I would make Moby Dick. I remember working
on it at her house, not finishing it so I took it home. Came back to paint
Moby white and then back home to cook it in the oven. It turned out
pretty cool.
I find this amusing on a couple counts: Sea creatures, primarily
fish, have been a symbol in my work for almost 45 years! I remember the
Moby Dick movie and how I empathised with the great white whale. That
probably influenced my interest in the environment. Also, I was naturally
interested in paying attention to my materials and making something
appropriate to my limited choices. Maybe kids are naturally more
interested in doing this.
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Lee In Mashiko, Japan
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