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Heath Ceramics
American, 1948 - present
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Biographysee Heath website www.heathceramics.com. Taken from website: Our clay bodies require one firing as opposed to the more typical two firings, and are fired at a lower temperature than are customarily used to reach the same levels of durability. Edith Heath (1911-2005) founded Heath Ceramics in the mid-forties when, following her one-woman show at San Francisco's Palace of the Legion of Honor, her pieces were picked up for sale at Gump’s of San Francisco. For the past half-century, Edith's life was dedicated to the craft of ceramics and the skill of the artisan. This passion, along with the legacy of her work in stoneware clay body and glaze development, gives Heath its unique place in ceramics today. As a result of Edith’s timeless and unique design sense - many of her pieces live in the permanent collections of museums such as the MOMA in New York City.