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Article: TAKING POTTERY TO A NEW LEVEL DEERFIELD MAN BRINGS ARTS AND CRAFTS AND WHIMSY TO CONTEMPORARY POTTERY.(FRONT)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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Byline: Brenda Ingersoll Wisconsin State Journal
DEERFIELD -- A brown bear climbs a forest green candlestick, and a gray field mouse scrambles across the shoulder of a green vase, about to nibble a stalk of yellow grain.
Such denizens of the natural world abound in Ephraim Faience art pottery, where polar bears frolic in a deep-blue sea, where bats hang, elephants trumpet and falcons roost. Lovers of the natural world and the arts and crafts movement also will find pots and vases showcasing wild iris, fiddlehead ferns, hosta, begonias, daisies, lilies and thistles.
The highly collectible Ephraim Faience pottery is made in rural Deerfield, in a ...