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Function Ware - Barbara Tipton |
Porcelain Place Settings
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| Chives Porcelain Plate, 2007 |
| wheel-thrown porcelain, reduction fired to
cone 10; refired with electronically produced decals to cone 012 |
| 9" dia. |
| $90.00 CDN
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| Plantain Porcelain Plate, 2007 |
| wheel-thrown porcelain, reduction fired to
cone 10; refired with electronically produced decals to cone 012 |
| 9" dia. |
| $90.00 CDN
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| About the decals: chives and plantain (and other
plants) are images taken from 16th C. herbals, redrawn and handcolored
electronically (i.e. in Photoshop). The watering woman was
electronically produced from copyright-free material and handcolored then
produced as a decal.
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| Porcelain Tumbler, 2007 |
| wheel-thrown porcelain, reduction fired to
cone 10; handpainted |
| 6" high, 3" at widest part |
| $35.00 CDN each
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| Porcelain Cups, 2007 |
| wheel-thrown porcelain, reduction fired to
cone 10; handpainted |
| c.3x3" |
| $40.00 CDN each
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Salt Glazed, Woodfired and/or Hand-painted Functionware
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| Pitcher, 2007 |
| woodfired, temoku |
| 6x4.5" |
| $48.00 CDN
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| Floral Plates |
| native saskatchewan clay, handpainted, multiple slips and
glazes |
| 1 x 10 1/2" to 1 x 11" |
| $45.00 CDN each
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Barbara Tipton - Bowls
Statement
For some years now I have made wall pieces centered around the idea of
the cup and saucer. The first of these works originated as wheel-thrown
forms, altered and assembled, but this evolved into drawing on paper
clay slabs and forming them intuitively. Many of the works retain their
visual identity as cup and saucer; yet I’m pleased when a certain
amount of ambiguity creeps in.
This year, however, as an aside from handbuilding wall pieces, I began
the year throwing all sizes and shapes of bowls—bowls for eating, for
serving. Bowls are the original extension of cupped hands, the eternal
container. In these utilitarian forms I’ve been looking for more
correlation between inside and outside, more continuity between rim and
foot. In the studio one is never sure where directions will lead, and
some of these works have strayed across the borders of utility. There's
every likelihood this exploration will affect my handbuilding as well.
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"Nearly every afternoon she went to
the chambers which contained the most interesting fragments of pottery,
sat and looked at them for a while. Some of them were beautifully
decorated. This care, expended upon vessels that could not hold food or
water any better for the additional labor put upon them, made her heart go
out to those ancient potters. They had not only expressed their desire,
but they had expressed it as beautifully as they could. Food, fire, water,
and something else-even here, in this crack in the world, so far back in
the night of the past!....These potsherds were like fetters that bound one
to a long chain of human endeavor." Willa Cather "The
Ancient People" in Lorraine Anderson, ed. Sisters of the Earth. Women's Prose and
Poetry About Nature. New York: Vintage Books, 2003, 184-5.
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| John Chalke and Barbara Tipton's conduct wood-fire
workshops each summer. For more information
go to www.upcountrykilns.com |
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