I will be listing some very weird and wonderful collectible items that I picked up on my travels this year. Please keep checking back as I will be listing new items every few days.

Up for sale are 2 beautifulpottery mugs made by Hansen - Ross potteries. Initialed on the bottom of each mug...HR 90. I am not sure what the centennial logo is for. Each mug is handmade and shows slight differences as expected....they are beautiful. They also come with the little pamphlet about the factory (this lot only has one pamphlet). I have a total of three pairs up for sale. The studio of the Dane, Folmer Hansen, and the Winnipegger, David Ross, in the Qu’Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan illustrates both the importance of the Saskatchewan government’s emerging support for the crafts in the 1950s, and also the importance of Saskatchewan as a regional driver in the history of ceramics in Canada.

The quality of their work caught the attention of international and national collectors, resulting in their being included in the 1967 Expo exhibition Canadian Fine Craft among others.

Their production consisted of majolica, underglaze painting, sgraffito, wax resist, carving and slip trailing.3Lesser known is the collaboration on a larger scale with artists such as the religious ceramic muralist, Lorraine Malach.

They bought their clay from Luke Lindoe in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Ironically the clay was a Saskatchewan clay. They did experiment with local clays from the Fort Qu’Appelle area and made up their own glaze recipes from purchased materials. They started with a small electric kiln that fired to cone 6, and later used a gas kiln, which Folmer said did not work too well, but fired to cone 9.1They were always experimenting, changing their glazes in each firing.

Their works possess a geometric simplicity of form whether ovoid, cylinder or circle: vase or bottle, cup or dish. The surface decoration can be linear and deeply carved, or etched sgraffito, or linear, slip-trailed flows and bands. It is always precise and pure with no fussiness.
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