Michael Cardew
Teapot

Michael Cardew (British, 1901-1983)
Teapot c. 1965
stoneware, iron and ash glazes
12.75 x 14 x 10″
Kamm Collection 2014.206.1

Michael Cardew was an important studio potter working in England and Africa. He studied with Bernard Leach before setting up his first of several subsequent potteries. This stoneware teapot was produced at the Abuja Pottery in Nigeria, which Cardew established as a training center. The Kamm Collection also has several slip-decorated earthenware pots for which Michael Cardew is known.

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