"Heart Teapot: Homage to Archie Bray"
Designer Richard Notkin American
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Richard Notkin was profoundly influenced by the refined and tastefully simplistic clay pots from the Yixing region of China that often assume realistically modeled forms and took them one step further. Here, a human heart is made improbably of bricks—a reference to the kindheartedness of the early mentor Archie Bray, who gave ceramists clays and access to a kiln in exchange for labor in his brick factory.
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