An Etsy Pottery Store

We make and sell functional stoneware and pit fired ceramic art in northeast Wisconsin.
Now you can find us in our Etsy.com store. We sell goblets, mugs, bowls of all sizes, small dishes, candle-holders, pitchers, vases, ornaments, covered jars or casseroles, quiche dishes, plates, cups.
All of these are hand made, one at a time in our studio. John Dietrich spent 43 years learning to make the perfect bowl and he says he'll never do it, which is good, since it is one of the motivations he has to get into the studio each day.
Diane is self taught, mostly be hanging around John, working in the gallery and studio. She was a beader before this.
John started Ellison Bay Pottery 35 years ago in an old apple packing barn, which once didn't have running water or functioning bathrooms, or bedrooms or a kitchen. So he converted it into a studio, gallery and home.
This is a picture of a very large pitcher, one of the 2008 designs, not to be duplicated. It is functional, which means food safe. Microwave, oven and dishwasher safe, too.
There are two glazes on this pitcher. The colors are applied after he throws it, while it is still on the wheel. He used cobalt blue, translucent and opaque porcelain, and rutile colored slips.