Pottery: vase

Pottery: vase

Handicraft

Pisgah Forest Pottery

Pottery

This porcelain vase has a tan glaze on the outside to which mineral crystals have been added. The inside is mauve with an aqua lip. The vase was made by W. B. Stephen of Pisgah Forest Pottery in 1949. The underside is marked with the Pisgah Forest trademark: a potter working at the wheel. Walter Benjamin Stephen (1875-1961) also known as W. B. Stephen, founded Pisgah Forest Pottery around 1926 in Arden, North Carolina. It continued his Nonconnah Pottery of Tennessee, which he worked with his mother. Stephen moved to the Asheville area in 1913. This vase is similar to the simple shapes of Oscar Bachelder, whose work Stephen knew and admired.

Stephen, Walter Benjamin, 1875-1961

Permanent Collection

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

1949

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crafts (art genres)

StillImage

16662

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2011-06-29

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

7.5" x 6"(dimension)

Craft Revival