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Ceramic Review

May June

Editors: Eileen Lewenstein Emmanuel Cooper 17a Newburgh Street London WlV lLE

Number 51

CONTENTS As I See It Alan Heaps 4

Dealing with the Customer Anne Hughes 6 One Man Potteries 7 The Old Donyatt Pottery Anne Leon 9 Janet Leach- New Ceramics 12 CPA New Members 13 Clay Survey Jan et & Frank Hamer 14 CPA Recent Members Exhibition 17 Books 18 Potters' Tips 20 Bryan Newman - Teapot Maniac Janet Kovesi 22 Pots and Potters 24 lbo Pottery Sy l via Leith-R o ss 28 Ash Glazes Ka t harine Pleyde ll-Bo u verie 30 CPA News 31 Letters 32 Forthcoming Exhibitions 33 Classified Advertisements 34 Cover: Alan Heaps - Noah's Ark, and the animals came in two by two Pre ss moulded and modelled . Oxidized stoneware. Article pages 4-5.

Science and the Potter Currently on show at the Science Museum (until September 24th) in London is an exhibition entitled "Josiah Wedgwood ; the Arts and Sciences United" - the theme being that in the mind of this remarkable master potter there was no gulf between arts and sciences. The exhibition shows him to have been not only a successful and innovative potter devising bodies and glazes for specific purposes but also a scientist and chemist with interests beyond his own immediate field of ceramics.

In Eighteenth Century England , it was possible for one person to be familiar with and have a comprehensive understanding of most available knowledge - a possibility long since past. Wedgwood directed his major energies to ceramics and amongst his many scientific inventions was the first pyrometer ; although he did not realise the difference at the time, the instrument recorded the effect of heat on clay rather than actual temperature , as indeed do today's pyrometric cones .

He saw his pottery production falling into two distinct categories - useful wares and ornamental wares - and indeed had different partnerships for each of these activities . Difficulties of distinction between two such categories were as evident 200 years ago as they are today. In one letter written to his partner Bentley, with whom he produced the 'classical' jasper wares at Etruria, Wedgwood wrote " ..... I do not find any inclination in myself to be over nice in drawing the line. You know, I never had any idea that ornamental ware should not be of some use" . Sales had obviously not been too good in the ornamental works and to remedy the situation Etruscan Tea Pots were introduced and became a very much wanted constant selling article.

Wedgwood was one of the first industrial master potters and constant experiment and investigation against a b.ackground of ignorance was necessary for the success and development of his business.

Today's studio potters are working against a background of vast scientific and technical knowledge. Although much

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of this information is geared to the specialized needs of industrial ceramic production , where nothing can be left to chance, there is a wealth of analytical material which can be of great value to the individual potter , and for this we have mainly to thank Josiah Wedgwood.

Twentieth Century studio potters have a constant need to test and experiment with their chosen clays and glazes. Perhaps they could do no better than to adopt one of Josiah Wedgwood 's favourite phrases 'Everything yields to experiment'.

For New Readers Just in case this .is the first issue of Ceramic Review that you have seen , this is what you have missed in back issues still available at cover prices i.e. 45p,50p , 55p ,60p ,90p +postage and handling charge 25p - 1 copy, 40p- 2 copies, SOp- 3 copies , 65p- 4 copies , 70p - 5 copies . No.36 Alan Barrett-Danes by Tony Birks. Two Chambered Kilns by Robert T. Compton. Decorating Tiles . 45p. • No.38 Glazes , Try it and See Part 2 by Robin Hopper. Pinch Pots by Mary Rogers. Colloidal Slips by Ben Cooper. SOp. No.39 Egyptian Paste by Sylvia Hyman. Vamps & Floozies by Hilary Brock. Glazes, Try it and See by Robin Hopper Part 3 . SOp. No.40 Michael Cardew at 75. This is Clay. 55p . No.41 Art School Survey '76. Spanish Potters. An introduction to clay geology. 55p No.42 Ash Glazes, Part 1 by Eric Mellon. A new kiln by Clive Davies. Terry Bell-Hughes, a proftle by Sue Harley. 60p. No.49 Charcoal Kiln by David Burn. Crystalline Glazes by Michael Machtey . Throwing plates by David Lloyd Jones . 90p. No. 50 Special Celebratory 50th Issue, featuring th.e work of Bernard Leach, in colour. Also Lucie Rie , Shoji Hamada and Karen Karnes . £1.20.

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