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2. Jim McDowell (ceramic artist) - Wikipedia

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   Afterwards, he returned to Pennsylvania and resumed work in the mines. Using an entire paycheck, he purchased a pottery wheel and a thousand pounds of clay. Education. McDowell studied art at Mount Aloysius College and took sculpture classes at Virginia Commonwealth University. As a potter, he is mostly self taught.

3. Potter's wheel - Wikipedia

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   Potter's wheel. Classic potter's kick-wheel in Erfurt, Germany. An electric potter's wheel, with bat (green disk) and throwing bucket. Not shown is a foot pedal used to control the speed of the wheel, similar to a sewing machine. In pottery, a potter's wheel is a machine used in the shaping (known as throwing) of clay into round ceramic ware.

4. Rookwood Pottery Company - Wikipedia

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   Japonisme in 1884. Rookwood Pottery is an American ceramics company that was founded in 1880 and closed in 1967, before being revived in 2004. It was initially located in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has now returned there. In its heyday from about 1890 to the 1929 Crash, it was an important manufacturer, mostly of ...

5. The Best Banding Wheels for Painting and Glazing Pottery - AOL

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   Once a pottery piece is off the wheel and dry, it often goes back on another kind of turntable, a banding wheel, so it can be painted, glazed, or otherwise embellished. The rotating platform gives ...

6. Overbeck Sisters - Wikipedia

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   The Overbeck sisters (Margaret, Hannah, Elizabeth, and Mary Frances) were American women potters and artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement who established Overbeck Pottery in their Cambridge City, Indiana, home in 1911 with the goal of producing original, high-quality, hand-wrought ceramics as their primary source of income.

7. Korean pottery and porcelain - Wikipedia

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   Onggi are Korean earthenware extensively used as pots and storage containers in Korea. It became a typical Korean garden material. It includes both unglazed earthenware, fired near 600 to 700 °C, and pottery with a dark brown glaze fired at over 1100 °C. The origin of onggi dates to around 4000 to 5000 BC.