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PAUL OTTAWAY BONE CHINA |
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Home of the world’s finest quality thrown bone china |



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BONE CHINA VESTAL Bracken and Barbed Wire motifs In cobalt blue inlay Clear glaze |
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Paul Ottaway Australian Arcanist |
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EMAIL paulottaway@bigpond.com
120 Grantville-Glen Alvie Road Grantville Vic 3984 Australia
www.paulottawaybonechina.com
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In 1965 Paul had an insight into how the lack of plasticity in porcelain could be solved. In1979 bone china paste with all the desired properties was created and consistently produced. Since then pots and potter have matured. Now he makes straight forward pots with affinity, love and intuition and an easy relaxed economy of both movement and thought. The simple decorative motifs are powerful, living, meaning filled symbols of the world. Expressive graphical images of the essential beingness of the things represented. His beautiful Vestals, their forms and decoration, are the fruit of the very human urge to create that cannot be suppressed by him any more than can song or dance by others. Paul has fought a bitterly costly titanic struggle against all odds to bring this beautiful Koryo dynasty like ware into existence. There is no doubt about its real historical and artistic significance. The waiting has passed. The pain has passed. Now he quietly enjoys creating his Vestals. You too can enjoy them. But be quick. Few are born. |
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PAUL OTTAWAY BONE CHINA |
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“BONE CHINA IS GENERALLY ACKNOWLEDGED TO BE VERY DIFFICULT IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO THROW”
Peter Lane, Contemporary Porcelain 1995 |