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These dark clay tumblers are just the thing for a double old-fashioned. Hand-thrown and then dinged up a bit, as we all feel now. Chocolate-toned Laguna stoneware with light hara glaze.

Set of four, one hundred and twenty dollars.

Photograph by me at the Ice House, Berkeley Springs.

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Small wish bowls, no two alike, and a contemplation chalice.* On the Berkeley Springs Studio Tour this weekend.

*It means what you think it means.

Mostly functional pottery on debut at the Smoke House (private — I’ll tell you the story) at out residence in Berkeley Springs.

I’m getting ready for you. Watershed Clayworks is stop D on the open studio tour in Berkeley Springs, W. Va.*, Saturday and Sunday, October 19 and 20. Start at the Ice House and find your way from there.

* I prefer the standard state abbreviations to the two-letter US Postal Service style.

 

salt cellar and spoon

Salter and spoon. Use just a little.

Peace chalice. Ten inches. Seventy-five dollars at Ice House gallery in Berkeley Springs.

 

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A square meal is so 20th century. Unround, unsquare dinner plate. Twenty-eight dollars.

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Next in series of shows, artists and performers who live near the DC Metro’s green line show our products.

Green Line Artists

Sunday 21 October
12 to 4
810 Upshur Street NW in Petworth

with Julie Christenberry, Gardens and Pots (Carol Herwig), Great Hill Studio (Sam Gordon) and Anthony Dihle

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photo by Abby Chapple

Red salt cellar, with spoon from the fair-trade shop Itty-Bitty in Berkeley Springs. Twenty-two dollars.

stackable cups and tripod plates in Laura’s turquoise glaze.

Photos by John Snyder