Australia | C20Ceramics

Dec 11

Terra Ceramics Australia 1946-1980s, Archival Material

These important photographs and archival documents were supplied by Naomi Fiegel who is the daughter of Bernhard Fiegel (1919-1981), founder of Terra Ceramics in Sydney in 1946 which operated into the 1980s. You can read my previous article on this important Australian Pottery HERE

These images give us an invaluable insight into the products and scope of this important Australian Pottery. Thank you to Naomi for making these images available for posterity.

Terra Ceramics 1956 Display at the Sydney Trade Show

Terra Ceramics Australia, Factory Interior c1970s

Terra Ceramics Australia, Cruet Bottles, c1970s

Terra Ceramics Display in Myer Department Store, Sydney, c1970s

Terra Ceramics 1952 Trade Show Exhibition, Sydney, Horden Pavilion

Terra Ceramics Australia, Sydney Factory Interior c1970s

Terra Ceramics Factory Sydney c1970s, Lunchroom

Terra Ceramics on Display at Myer Department Store, Sydney c1970s

Terra Ceramics Australia, Factory Interior showing the casting moulds and items in various stages of production.

Jul 31

Australian Latvian Folk Pottery - Photo Ray Garrod

Latvian Australian Folk Pottery

The identify of the maker of this Latvian/Australian Pottery in the last half of the 20th Century has finally been found. He worked in Adelaide, South Australia.

Ilja Chapoff – Further Information

Thank you to Emma for sending a photo of piece by Ilja Chapoff (previous posts). This piece has a similar style of pattern and brush technique to the first piece by this Artist which I came across – and appears to have been from the same exhibition/gallery going by the labelling on the base.

As a fascinating side note I have come across an photo of a large mural painted by Ilja before he came to Australia as a WW2 refugee from Czechoslovakia.

I cant post the image here as it is a “stock image” – but HERE is the link to it.

The mural is in the Dormition Church at the Olsany Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic, and the caption says this is one of several murals painted 1941-1945 by a group of Russian Icon Painters after a design by Ivan Bilibin. I knew that Ilja worked as an Artist in Prague before migrating to Australia, but until now didn’t know in what capacity or field…so it is fascinating to be building up a background story every so slowly of this talented artist and craftsman.

(There is also a fascinating brief history of the Olsany Cemetery on Wikipedia here )