Pottery: lamp

Pottery: lamp

Handicraft

Pisgah Forest Pottery

Pottery

This lamp base was made by Walter Benjamin Stephen (1875-1961) as a part of his American Cameo line in the 1930s. This is an example of cameo ware Stephen developed from the idea of Wedgwood Pottery in England. Stephen carefully painted the scenes onto his ceramic pieces, slowly building layers of porcelain slip. The wagon train was a popular pattern. The design came from Stephen's memories of traveling to Nebraska as a boy. Stephen opened the Pisgah Forest Pottery in Arden, North Carolina around 1926 and the pottery still operates today.

Stephen, Walter Benjamin, 1875-1961

Permanent Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1930/1939

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crafts (art genres)

StillImage

14546

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2008-01-19

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

ceramic base: 10" x 5-7.5"(dimension)

finial 3"(dimension)

shade: 11" x 9-14"(dimension)

Craft Revival