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Awards for Ceramika Artystyczna |
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Ceramika Artystyczna, has won numerous awards through out the world for design and quality. A most prestigious first place award was won for "The Most Exquisite Wedding Table" at the Spring Frankfurt Ambiente Fair, 1999.
Please enjoy visiting Ceramika Artystyczna's web-site at www.ceramika-artystyczna.pl to view all their awards.
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A Note of Interest |
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Ceramics have been produced in Boleslawiec, Poland dating back to the medieval times. Since the 18th century, a new decoration method using a brown glaze with white decorations became highly desired throughout Europe including royalty.
Today several factories in Boleslawiec produce decorative ceramics. However, the finest quality stoneware both in design and decoration is produced by the cooperative, Ceramika Artystyczna- "Artistic Ceramics." Most of this beautiful art produced by this company is exported throughout the world. Each piece of stoneware is stamped on the bottom with this factory's insignia. The stamped marking associated with Ceramika Artystyczna is represented on each page of our site.
"Artistic Ceramics" has been producing the finest art since 1950. It is this company that produces the most sophisticated and world renowned decorations for decorative and functional enjoyment.
Each design artist is inspired by a place, an experience and a love for life. Each beautiful and unique decoration is the artist.
- "Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
- - Leonardo Da Vinci
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World Renowned Stoneware from Ceramika Artystyczna |
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The production process for our beautiful ceramics is rather lengthy and time consuming. The use of whiter and denser clay, that is indigenous to this region of Poland, combined with intricately designed decorations and forms is the hallmark of Ceramika Artystyczna's artistry and skilled craftsmanship in each piece of stoneware.
Fourteen pairs of skilled hands are responsible for creating the most beautiful functional art for your home. It all begins when a truck arrives at the factory to deliver loose clay that is mined from a local river bank in the town of Boleslawiec in Poland.
The next stages follow:
- A hand production model is created by the artistic director and form designer.
- A hand production primary form is produced.
- A hand production working form is produced in the shape of a mold.
- Shaping a form with a liquid slip.
- Hand washing and cleaning a semi-finished product
- Hand arrangement on the rack for initial firing
- Hand unloading after first firing
- Hand checking quality of semi-finished product
- Hand painting of product
- Hand glazing of product
- Hand arrangement on the rack for the second firing
- Hand unloading of finished product
- Hand sorting and quality inspection of finished product
- Hand wrapping and packing into cartons for shipping
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The History of Polish Pottery and Ceramika Artystyczna |
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The town of Boleslawiec (Bowl-e-swa-vee-etz), Poland is located on the Bobr River in the southwest region of Poland on the German and Czech borders. This region of the world has been a potter's community dating to the 7th century. The natural resource of this region's special clay is mined on the river bank of the Bobr River in Boleslawiec.
Ceramika Artystyczna-"Artistic Ceramics" opened its productin in 1950, post war, in the former factory "Paul und Sohn" (1893-1945). The varieties of production forms include numerous museum copies and traditional shapes. Stamped pottery decorations, using the traditional hand sponging method with intricately cut sponges, incorporating the famous "eye of the peacock's tail" motif, have been produced since the beginning of the 19th century. These beautiful works of art are recognized among the finest examples of European stoneware. In the past history, village craftsmen and peasants of lower Silesia, originally inspired by the peacock's feather motif, added their simple technique and beauty to clay objects. These works of art have long been admired for the uniqueness and decorative appeal. Today, each piece is hand painted and either bears the initials or name of the artist who created the original decorations that are exquisitely painted on each piece of this functional stoneware.
You may enjoy viewing a selection of original pieces in a museum in Boleslawiec, Poland.
Ceramika Artystyczna, in Boleslawiec, has won numerous international awards for excellence in quality and design competing with over 157 countries in the world.
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