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Born August 24, 1890 • Japan
Died November 18, 1966 (aged 76) • Kyōto • Japan • (Anniversary in 5 days)
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Sakaida Kakiemon I
Japanese potter
Japanese side dish
Ogata Kenzan
Japanese artist
Stoneware dish with brush-painted sugarcane pattern by Hamada Shōji, after 1930; in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Hamada Shōji
Japanese artist
Ninsei: vase with feather fans
Ninsei
Japanese potter
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Itaya Hazan
Japanese potter
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Elers, John Philip
English potter
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Aaron Wood
English potter
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Ralph Wood, Sr.
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
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
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Eva Zeisel
Hungarian American designer and ceramicist
Maria Martinez
Maria Martinez
American artist
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
Dave the Potter
Dave the Potter
American potter and poet
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Beatrice Wood
American ceramicist
Josiah Wedgwood.
Josiah Wedgwood
English craftsman
We'wha
We’wha
A:Shiwi artist
Palissy ware
Bernard Palissy
French potter and scientist