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Hans Coper: Quick Facts

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Born April 8, 1920 • Chemnitz • Germany
Died June 16, 1981 (aged 61) • Somerset • England
Grayson Perry dressed as his alter ego Claire, wearing a bright red dress and red heels, stands on a pink and white carpet outside the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Grayson Perry
British potter
Josiah Wedgwood.
Josiah Wedgwood
English craftsman
Bernard Leach: vase
Bernard Leach
British potter
Rie, Lucie: porcelain bowl
Dame Lucie Rie
British potter
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Sakaida Kakiemon I
Japanese potter
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Ralph Wood, Sr.
English potter
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Aaron Wood
English potter
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Ralph Wood, Jr.
English potter
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Enoch Wood
English potter
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David Elers
English potter
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Elers, John Philip
English potter
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
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Eva Zeisel
Hungarian American designer and ceramicist
Maria Martinez
Maria Martinez
American artist
Dave the Potter
Dave the Potter
American potter and poet
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Beatrice Wood
American ceramicist
We'wha
We’wha
A:Shiwi artist
Palissy ware
Bernard Palissy
French potter and scientist
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John Astbury
English potter
“Dionysus Crossing the Sea,” interior of a kylix (shallow drinking cup) by Exekias, c. 535 bc; in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich
Exekias
Greek artist