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1970s James Lovera Vase With Crater Glaze
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Title: Vase With Crater Glaze.
Artist: James Lovera (1920-2015).
Origin: California.
Period: 1970s.
Description: Offered is a free-form wheel-thrown earthenware …
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Title: Vase With Crater Glaze.
Artist: James Lovera (1920-2015).
Origin: California.
Period: 1970s.
Description: Offered is a free-form wheel-thrown earthenware vase, features a textural crater glaze over a globular brown ceramic form, etched cursive signature to underside 'lovera'. The simple and restrained forms were influenced by Lovera's travels through Japan. This is one of the most unusual pieces that I have encountered with this his most acclaimed lava ceramic style in many years.
Measures: 5.5 D x 4.75 H inches. Weighs: approx. 1 pounds.
About the artist and work: James Lovera (age 94), grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, in Hayward, California, and lived a vibrant life as an artist devoted to sharing his vision of beauty. He was fascinated with the colors and natural beauty of California, influenced his attendance of the California School of Fine Arts (The Art Institute). He participated in the 1939 World's Fair and was a founding member of the Association of Clay and Glass Artists of California. After graduation (1942), Lovera began creating pottery in his home studio and worked and studied with famed ceramist Marguerite Wildenhain in Pond Farm, California. Early on his ceramic work gained him recognition, lead to a faculty position at San Jose State University (1948). Lovera treasured his sabbatical year in Japan (1976) as he pursued his love of Asian art. He retired Professor Emeritus after 38 years teaching color, design and ceramics. Lovera viewed retirement as a time of new beginnings. During that time he designed and built a Japanese style home and pottery studio in California's Gold Country where he continued to create the ceramics and glazes that were his passion. His works have been exhibited throughout the United States and the world.
James Lovera’s fascination with the bowl form led him to produce a large focused body of work. He used porcelain to throw his perfect paper thin walled pieces that flare out from a tiny ring foot. The types of glazes he used are direct opposites although both reference the natural world he saw around him. They can range from the textural crater glazes, as exemplified in this piece for which he is perhaps most well-known, to glossy Asian inspired glazes.
As Lovera concentrated on perfecting form, he unleashed upon the "canvas" of his chargers and bowls interpretations of the textures and hues that surrounded him in nature. Many of the vessels Lovera created are exemplary of midcentury Modernist concerns for the clarity of form and function. As in this piece, it is clear to see an evolution in Lovera's work with crater or lava glazes expressive of how embraced the role of chance in the firing process, so evident in this naturally colored striking piece, whereas latter work he experimented with other elements of color, apparently to influence the and experiment with the finish outcome.
Lovera is best known for his crater glazes, taking them, beginning in the 1970s, to unprecedented levels of lathered, volcanic definition. Since 2000, Lovera has revisited his longstanding crater formulas, reinventing them as necessary to create surfaces that are now fully dimensional and riddled with thousands of vesicles. Lovera's mastery of both material and kiln is required to prevent the viscosity of the glaze from shattering a bowl's thin walls.
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- Dimensions
- 5.5ʺW × 5.5ʺD × 4.75ʺH
- Artist
- James Lovera
- Brand
- James Lovera
- Designer
- James Lovera
- Styled After
- James Lovera
- Period
- 1970s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Ceramic
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Gray
- Condition Notes
- Fine; light wear not commensurate with age and use (e.g. light wear at underside, not apparent). A beautiful piece. Fine; light wear not commensurate with age and use (e.g. light wear at underside, not apparent). A beautiful piece. less
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