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Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. The place where such wares are made by a potter is also called a pottery (plural potteries).
Pottery techniques include the potter's wheel, slip casting and many others. Methods for forming powders of ceramic raw materials into complex shapes are desirable in many areas of technology. For example, such methods are required for producing advanced, high-temperature structural parts such as heat engine components, recuperators and the ...
Richard Zane Smith (born 1955) is an American sculptor who grew up in St. Louis Missouri and learned the art of pottery at the Kansas City Art institute. Smith's works draw from Wyandotte as well as Pueblo traditions, incorporating coils and layers within the clay.
Stoneware is a vitreous or semi-vitreous ceramic made primarily from stoneware clay or non-refractory fire clay. [10] Stoneware is fired at high temperatures. [11] Vitrified or not, it is nonporous; [12] it may or may not be glazed.
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He studied his degree under Gilbert Harding-Greene but left the degree a year early in 1965, to set up his own pottery in London making tableware. [citation needed] Anthony Caro was Michell's landlord in St John's Wood and his massive studio was behind the pottery, so when Michell's business folded in 1966, Caro offered him a job. He spent the ...