California vintage art pottery WILLIAM MANKER large glazed bowl

Porcelain : Antique : Ceramics, Porcelain : California Art Pottery

 

Elegant bowl in a pink/mauve glaze, 13 3/8" diameter and about 2 1/2" high from the base, bearing the mark of well known early California art pottery pioneer WILLIAM MANKER of Claremont and Pasadena. Manker, a student of Frank Tolles Chamberlin at Chouinard in Los Angeles, was at first a designer with Ernest Batchelder, one of the leaders of the Arts and Crafts movement in Southern California. By 1935 Millard Sheets at Scripps College in Claremont had hired Manker to develop the ceramics deparment. In the 1940's and 1950's, William Manker pottery peaked, coinciding with the golden days of California art pottery, before the influx of cheap imports damaged the business. Manker learned wheel throwing from Gertrud Natzler, wife of Otto Natzler, the works of whom are highly coveted today by collectors. This bowl has a tiny chip in the footed base, and a small disturbed area on edge, not truly a chip (see photo), both to me barely worth mentioning but I know that pottery collectors are very condition conscious. Otherwise there are just extremely light surface scratches consistent with the bowl having been used. I'm not a pottery or ceramics specialist so hope I've given an accurate description of the bowl. SEE HUNDREDS OF PAINTINGS AND PRINTS IN MY SHOP.

Item ID: JB0926