Photo: Artist
Photo: Loren Maron
Photo: Artist
Photo: Loren Maron

Agateware Teapot

USA, 1900
Victoria and Albert Museum
Date acquired:
Materials:
Agateware
Colored Clay
Form - Functional: N/A
Form - Sculptural: N/A
Method:
Hand-Built
Cast
Surface Technique: N/A
Kiln Type: N/A
Glazes:
Overglaze
Michelle Erickson

Curtis Benzle is best known for his paper-thin vessels created using multi-colored porcelain in the Japanese technique known as Nerikomi. Nerikomi is a process in which porcelain slabs, colored with stains or oxides, are stacked, folded, pressed into logs, sliced, arranged and pressed into vessel forms. The resulting vessels are thin walled and translucent. He has also used this technique to create lighting fixtures.

In 2015 Benzle was awarded one ofonly four Individual Artist Fellowships in the Visual Art and Craft categories by the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

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Victoria and Albert Museum

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