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Slideshow: The evolution of British studio pottery explored in new exhibit

The Yale Center for British Art is presenting the first major survey of British studio pottery ever organized in the United States.
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  • A collection of red vases at the Yale Center for British Art.
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    Clare Twomey, "Made in China," (detail of 2017 installation at the Yale Center for British Art), 2010, 71 porcelain vases with gilt decals and one porcelain vase with gold decal, Collection of the artist, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough. Photo by Richard Caspole.
  • A white moon jar.
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    Adam Buick,"Moon Jar," 2016, porcelain with white chun glaze, Collection of Adam Buick, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Photo by Jon Stokes.
  • A stoneware moon jar.
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    Akiko Hirai, "Moon Jar," 2016, stoneware, porcelain slip, paper fiber, wood ash, and white glaze, Collection of Akiko Hirai, London. Photograph by Jon Stokes.
  • A stoneware vase with brown floral designs from the Song dynasty.
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    Artist unknown, "Vase," 960-1280, Song dynasty, China, buff stoneware, incised floral designs painted in dark brown on a white cutaway ground. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Bequest of Sir Gervase Beckett. ©The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
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    Carol McNicoll, "Unravelling Vase," ca. 1980, slip cast earthenware, colored slips and underglaze color, and clear glaze. Collection of Carol McNicoll, London. Photo by Jon Stokes.
  • Small porcelain vessels in a glass case.
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    Edmund de Waal, "a place made fast," 2014, 160 porcelain vessels with gilding in a wood, aluminum, and glass cabinet, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles.
  • A yellow stoneware Venus Love Trap vessel.
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    Gordon Baldwin, "Venus Love Trap Vessel II," 2003-2004, stoneware with yellow pigment, hand-built. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, ©Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2017.
  • A speckled stoneware bowl.
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    Jennifer Lee, "Pale," fractured speckled spiral and traces, 2008, hand-built stoneware. Collection of Jennifer Lee, London. Photo by Jon Stokes.
  • A porcelain vase with blue and red
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    Felicity Aylieff, "Chasing Red," 2006, glazed porcelain, painted in cobalt blue and iron oxide under the glaze and in enamel over the glaze. Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, Photo by Heini Schneebel.
  • A photo of a potter in her studio.
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    Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie in her studio at Kilmington, Wiltshire, ca. 1982. Photo by Ben Boswell.
  • A coffee set.
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    Designed by Keith Murray for Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, "Coffee Set," ca. 1935, earthenware. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. ©Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2017.
  • A stoneware and porcelain bottle with a flared lip.
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    Lucie Rie, "Bottle with Flaring Lip," 1970s, mixed stoneware and porcelain with glaze. Crafts Study Centre, Farnham. ©Crafts Study Centre, Farnham 2017.
  • A vase with two curved handles.
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    Magdalene Odundo, untitled, 1995, hand-built, terra sigillata, polished and carbonized terracotta clay. Gift of Jane and Gerald Katcher, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. Courtesy of the artist and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.
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    Nicholas Rena, "A Romantic Impulse," 2012-2015, hand-built, painted, and polished ceramic. Collection of Nicholas Kessler. Photo by Phil Sayer.

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