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The Ceramic Wren Sculpture by Andersen Studio captures the essence of the small bird in a gracefully abstracted sculptural design.

 

 

The Handcrafted Ceramic Wren Sculpture by Andersen Studio of Maine captures the essential character of the small bird in a gracefully abstracted sculptural design. The pleasing form is decorated using the Andersen’s original brown decorating slip and soft matte white glaze over a red stoneware body.  The spontaneous brushwork is individually expressed by the “hand” of the artisans.  The handcrafted pottery wren figurine is three inches long.


The Stoneware Eastern Bluebird Sculpture (Round) is all bright-eyed innocence with royal blue wings and coral breast. This Bluebird is modeled with direct and simple geometry transformed by fluid line into the classic American Ceramic Bluebird. The carved wings and tail are spontaneously brushed with The Andersen blue decorating color and tipped with our ebony glaze. The charming Bluebird gazes upward at the viewer with a silent eloquence.


The Stoneware Eastern Bluebird looks blissfully satiated and content with its full round coral belly.  A cloak of royal blue feathers falls down the sloping back and ends in ebony glazed tips.  The ceramic decorating color is applied with spontaneous brushwork that is simple and pure.  The large ebony eyes seem soulfully alive. This lovely Bluebird of happiness is handcrafted in America.  It is three inches long and five inches tall.

Ceramic Turned Gull in Soft Grey and white matte glaze on white body

 Ceramic Turned Gull in Soft Grey and white matte glaze on white body

Authentic ceramic art and design from the mid-century to contemporary.  Over fifty years of ceramic art and design expressed with uniquely American artistic individuality has resulted in the collectible lines of stoneware wildlife sculpture and ceramic functional form presented here in the Andersen Studio Ceramic Stoneware Art And Design Gallery.  Original designs in the cool and restful colors of the Maine Coast, these ceramic stoneware animals, birds, bowls, and vases, are taking their places in the age old history of crafts and technology in clay and related minerals.

 

 

The Ceramic Butterfly Sculpture by Andersen Studio of Maine is a carved winged ceramic canvas, which comes in standard patterns or as one of kind artist interpretations. The stoneware butterfly sculpture is 4 inches long and six inches high.      The Paired Mating Dove facing Left or facing Right . Two Paired Doves, symbolic of intuitive love, makes the perfect wedding gift. Slipcast and hand-crafted by American artisans, glazed in the Andersen soft to the touch white matte galze with ebony beak and eyes over our white stoneware body. The Stoneware Dove is 8 “long.. Also available in Celadon glaze on a white stoneware body.

 

 The original hand made sculptures are reproduced in plaster moulds by skilled New England artisans, using a stoneware slip casting method.  Ceramic artisans then fettle (hand finish) the individual shapes before they are bisque fired, i.e., fired just hard enough for decorating ang glazing.

  Large Ceramic Salad Bowl, interplay of relationships between positive and negative curvilinear orbits. The striking stoneware bowl is designed by Weston Neil Andersen and decorated in our classic brown tree pattern, executed each time by an individual artisan with his or her own unique hand. The pottery form is then finished in the Andersen matte white glaze over the Andersen brown slip on our white stoneware body. All from raw materials found in the United States. 10” diameter $180.00     The Natural Stone Gray Ceramic Sea Urchin Bowl, small, by Andersen Design. This Stoneware Sea Urchin Bowl is a perennial favorite. A beautiful Ceramic Organic Form that is stunning in any of our unique Andersen glazes. As with all Andersen stoneware, the crafting of this pottery form starts with the raw materials of the earth found in the United States, which we use to create our original body and glaze recipes. The form was modeled by Weston Andersen and is finished by hand by Maine artisans. A true American classic in the field of ceramic art and design. 7” in diameter, this ceramic sea urchin bowl is shown in the natural tones of the rocky beaches of Maine- variegated grays, whites and ebony. The stoneware sea urchin bowl is also available in Bronze, Ebony, Verdigris, and Pure White, or as a one of a kind signed artist’s interpretation. $75.00              

 

 

The Ceramic Sea Urchin Bowl, designed and crafted by Andersen Studio, is based on the form of the natural shell, once ubiquitous on the Maine Shoreline. The proportions of the Andersen bowl are perfectly true to nature’s sublime design. The Andersen’s naturally flowing ceramic gray decorating colors are applied with individualistic artistic freedom by American artisans. The natural and spontaneous brushwork retains the elegant seashore quality of nature’s work, because it does not attempt to become an exact replica. The natural quality in spontaneity, shared by man and nature, brings the Andersen stoneware sea urchin bowl to life. The Andersen’s signature white matte glaze is designed to capture the natural fluidity of ceramic colors as they move across the form. The organic ceramic sea urchin bowl is ten inches in diameter. 

 


After hand decorating in which designs are painted freehand in wax and under-glaze colors, the ceramics are hand dipped in the unique Andersen glazes and fired to a temperature of 2200 degrees.  They are then finished and graded before going to the collector.


Andersen Studio was established in the mid-twentieth century as Ceramics By Andersen.  Weston and Brenda Andersen were emerging artist-designers in the mid-century urban designer movement.  Weston Andersen studied ceramic production under Eva Zeisel in a landmark ceramic production class at Pratt Institute.  The Andersen’s received a young designers award in Living magazine for their egg shaped vase with lip. 

                       

                                                              

The Andersen Studio Ceramic Chipmunk. Reflective ebony eyes spring to life against sandy textures of the Andersen's ceramic brown decorating slip and their matte white glaze. The ears are poised to listen with feet firmly grounding the stoneware chipmunk in readiness to respond. The back and tail are glazed in Ebony and matte white strips. The tail curves gently upward. The ceramic chipmunk sculpture by stands five inches tall. 


Andersen stoneware took its own unique path when they set up their own hands-on hand-crafted ceramic production studio on the coast of Maine.  Ceramics by Andersen arrived in Maine with a line of mid-century classic ceramic stoneware vases, bowls and functional designs.  The natural environment of Maine inspired a line of wildlife ceramic stoneware sculpture and ceramic art.  Ceramics by Andersen became the Andersen Studio retail ceramic art and design gallery and Andersen Design, the wholesale line of classic stoneware ceramic art and design. The Andersen’s pioneered a ceramic studio industry in the Boothbay Region on the coast of Maine.


The Stoneware Sea Otter by Christine Andersen Tupper for Andersen Studio of Maine. This unusual ceramic sea otter is captured in a pose of blissful relaxation floating on the gently moving ocean waves. The otter grasps a bit of food with its front paws. The head is gently raised and the white fur falls downward like water, as though the otter had just finished a sea dive to capture it’s food.The ceramic stoneware is rendered in the sophisticated ceramic surfaces of Andersen’ s Studio’s original and unique ceramic glazes and finishes, all created from the raw materials sourced in America. The pottery otter is brushed with the Andersen’s brown decorating slip, with the head and an occasional tuff of fur dipped in white matte glaze. The finishing touches are the ebony glazed feet and nose. This beautiful work of ceramic nature art is 8.5 Inches long

 

 The Stoneware Sitting Striped Cat by Christine Andersen Tupper glances sideways and studies the viewer with a natural feline sensibility. The hand painted stripes has a natural rhythm. Maine artisans individually decorate each ceramic cat sculpture so that each stoneware cat has a pattern as unique as the living inspiration. The Sitting pottery feline figurine is slip-cast and handcrafted by Maine artisans. Every Andersen ceramic art object begins with raw materials, which become Andersen's unique body, glazes and decorative finishes. The beautiful striped pottery cat stands 6” tall and is available in gray, Ebony, Bronze, and brown stripe. $50.00                                                                

 

Weston and Brenda Andersen began designing and handcrafting Andersen Stoneware in their small Maine ceramic production studio in the mid-century (1952).  Their first ceramic art gallery, Ceramics by Andersen, was located in a two hundred year old barn along a country road on Southport Island, Maine.


                              

The Stoneware Crouching Bear is hand brushed in Andersen’s Studio’s sandy brown ceramic decorating slip. The sculptural curves delineate the muscular strength of the bear’s form as it takes a step forward. The strength of the Bear’s form is complemented by a gentleness expressed through the face and posture. The bear is unthreatening, a fellow creature of our natural world. The Andersen Studio stoneware bear is handcrafted using the ceramic slip casting process. The hand finishing and natural properties of the Andersen’s original ceramic glazes and decorating colors produces individuality in every slip-cast form, making every ceramic form a genuine expression of American individuality. 

The second generation of six, Elise, Mackenzie, Christine, Karen, Gerda and Iain, have contributed ceramic designs and development.  Andersen Design Ceramic Studio Production and the Andersen Studio Ceramic Art and Design Gallery all continue at the original location in East Boothbay, Maine, USA.

 


 

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