Pottery: creamer

Pottery: creamer

Handicraft

Pisgah Forest Pottery

Pottery

This creamer 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 Wedgwood Pottery in England. Stephen carefully painted the scenes onto his ceramic pieces, slowly building layers of porcelain slip. This piece represents a series depicting Native American life. The design came from Stephen's memories of traveling through Nebraska as a boy. The underside is marked with the Pisgah Forest trademark: a potter working at the wheel. 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

1930/1935

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crafts (art genres)

StillImage

16665

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2011-06-29

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

5" x 3.5"(dimension)

Craft Revival