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Early tableware designs by Eva Striker Zeisel (1906 – 2011) while she was working at the Schramberger Majolikafabrik in the Black Forest during the 1920ties. From the exhibition Women in Design at the Vitra Museum 2021 – 2022.
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I took some pictures of this pot by Betty Blandino in 2024 and made a quick sketch of it. Then I walked on and looked at the many other ceramics at the V&A in London. I forgot about it until last December when I came across her booked “Coiled Pottery” while I was researching about traditional hand-building techniques at the national art library. I think it’s one of the best books on the subject. As she was herself a potter she has a good way to describe and present the traditional techniques and the working process of her contemporary colleagues too. The book is out of print and there is little information about Betty Blandino in the internet, a part from one article in the The Sunday Times which was published after her death in 2011 which describes her as one of the finest studio potters in Britain and as a key figure in the renaissance of hand-building in the 1970s and 1980s. From the few pots by her I was able to see I definetely agree.
Betty Blandino (1927- 2011) Pot, 1981 made in Lydney, Gloucestershire. Stoneware, hand-built, painted with oxides under a tin glaze V&A London.
Study of pot by Betty Blandino, 2024
Betty Blandino: Coiled Pottery, Contemporary and Traditional Ways, 1989, 1994
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