#eastern ceramics

[digitaldevil-no-ondomo]

27-01-2023

statues and ceramics, musei capitolini

[kness]

[hyydraworks]

Nearly all of the friends coming in the Etsy update Thursday Feb. 1st at 5pm et. Will have the Batstarion mugs and some Spectacled flying fox mugs as well!

[claypigeonpottery]

painting some eastern bluebirds

they’re up on etsy

[jurassicqueer]

New batch of bisque fired children, ready for glazing before final firing. I'm really enjoying working with this new clay, called Fool's Gold, that when fired to cone 6 will be a speckly golden color with tiny black flecks. Bisque fired it looks kinda pink!

[easterneuropeancrafts]

Troyan Pottery

Troyan Museum of National Crafts and Applied Arts

(19th century to the late 20th century)

Troyan, Bulgaria

Troyan pottery is the most recognisable and widely practiced form of pottery in Bulgaria today.

One of the first mentions of a potter's guild in Troyan is from 1852. The craft developed rapidly following Bulgarian Liberation, with the first secondary school for pottery being founded in Troyan 1911. By the middle of the 20th century, the Troyan school of pottery takes shape. Its style is very distinctive and it incorporates old motifs while adapting them to contemporary tastes.

The photos above are from an exhibition titled The Wealth of Troyan Pottery which presents works from the 19th century to the 1970s. It includes works by some of the most famous masters of the craft - Dancho Vasileshki, Nikola Nikolski, Tsocho Kovachev, Bayu Dobrev and Petar Tsankov. It tells the story of the Iovkovi family, who were craftsmen who carried the art across four generations, and Iova Raevska - one of the most important masters who helped develop the art of ceramics in Bulgaria.

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #TilesOnTuesday:

“Squirrel” (Eastern Grey Squirrel) #140, from the ongoing search for all the animals from the 420 original 1906 Moravian tile mosaics by Henry Chapman Mercer on the Pennsylvania Capitol floor.

There is another mosaic of a Flying Squirrel somewhere too…

[hiddenromania]

Oradea occupies a special place in the history of European architecture and is one of the Art Nouveau capitals of Europe.

The city developed on the Crişul Repede River, between the West Plains and the Apuseni Mountains, taking advantage of an important trade route linking Western Europe to Central and Eastern Europe. During the late 19th century Oradea witnessed an economic boom, largely due to commerce and financial institutions inside Austria-Hungary.

The most impressive are the Sezession-style buildings, real palaces built around 1900. The originality of their architectural expression is completed by a unique ornamentation deployed in stuccos, ceramic decorations and especially the ironworks of interiors.

Photos: Bogdan Popa

[fallauween]

Eastern Song by Natalie Panga

[finalfortunart]

Hi, I've got an update on my online shop in the form of two new products, a ceramic mug (with colored handle and insides) and vinyl stickers. It took a bit longer than the tote bags to get these ready because neither looked as good as I wanted them to in the first samples I ordered, but they're here and ready now!

Both feature my red eft design, and 10% of the profit from the sale of these products will be donated to the Friends of Timbercrest, a volunteer group in western New York that helps maintain and run events at Camp Timbercrest, owned by the GSUSA. You can find all the red eft products here!

[yakasha]

Oleksa Bakhmatiuk - "Two Hutsul Musicians" Stove tile from Galicia, ca. 1870

[life-of-architecture]

Nowy Sącz Al. Wolności 40 mozaika z 1967 r. foto z 21 stycznia i 14 czerwca 2020

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Nowy Sącz, Poland 40 Wolności Av. mosaic from 1967 taken on 21 January and 14 June 2020

[kness]

A little chipmunk 🐿️ in an apron playing the trumpet 🎺

[hyydraworks]

Wanted to try a new bat friend, so here are a few Eastern Red batties!

[claypigeonpottery]

sometimes I paint a piece before I add the line art. I find this a little more challenging, but it's worked out for me so far!

these eastern bluebirds are still up on Etsy

[sadclowncentral]

What uh. What's the frog story 👀

back when i was in second grade, my elementary school organised a school market with every class selling their crafts for charity. the contribution of my class were hand-sized ceramic frogs we made in art class. each one of us made one of them to be sold for five euros a piece (this is important later). the quality of the frog i made varies drastically based on who is telling the story, and for reasons that will become very apparent later there is no way to check, but i stand by the fact that it was average looking, if a bit wonky.

the day of the market arrived, and all frogs were bought within minutes, snatched up by enthusiastic and proud parents. all except - mine. because my mother hates spending money on unnecessary things, and she hates children's crafts even more. so she - loudly and vehemently - refused, in her thick eastern european accent, to "spend five euros on an ugly frog".

i will never forget seeing my ceramic frog alone on the slightly wet cardboard, surrounded by the imprints left behind by the already sold frogs. all the while other parents are getting more and more agitated, trying to get my mother to put the frog out of its misery. eventually, she budged, and spend five euros on a wonky frog. she was absolutely furious about this.

so furious, in fact, that when we came home to where my father was remodelling the kitchen, she WALLED IT IN. that's right. she cask of amadillo'd that poor ceramic fool. put him into the open wall and slapped concrete over it faster than my poor seven year old self or my dad could protest. out of pure anger over loosing five euros. and that's where it remains, until this day.

my mom hates when this story is brought up, which is why we bring it up all the time. she also thinks she what she did was right, because "do the other parents know where the frog is? no. only your creation is safe. because i love you." morally, i would disagree, but on a pure factual basis, she has a point.

i made her another ceramic frog for her last brithday, which was not buried like some pharaoh, and everytime guests compliment it my brother loudly goes "oh you should see the other frog he made" and when they ask to see it, he points at the wall. this is hilarious to him and infuriating for my mother. and that's the frog story.