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Birds of ceramic art flock together

 

 

Camille-VandenBerge-ceramic-figure

Camille VandenBerge

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Duck plate -- Theodore-Deck-(1823-1891)-and-Ernest-CARRIERE,-decor-23inch-1890

Theodore Deck and Ernest Carriere

(1823-1891) Dia 23inch-1890

 

 

Free as a bird

 

I once lived high on a hill with mountain views in the distance and I believe it was on a migratory bird path or near some energy vortex because flocks of birds flew past on a regular basis. They would fly in a huge circular arcs overhead and there would always be one bird that would release a shriek of delirious joy while in flight before they moved on. This liberating expression of delightful freedom in flight became an uplifting interlude during the day. The Taoists claim that the early morning collective bird symphonies of chirping and singing help to get the days chi moving in addition to the spiral vorticies created when they flap their wings.

“Byrdes of on kynde and color flok and flye allwayes together.” This old proverb has been in use since at least the mid 16th century. In 1545 William Turner used a version of it in his papist satire ‘The Rescuing of Romish Fox’. In nature, birds of a single species do in fact frequently form flocks. Ornithologists explain this behaviour as a ‘safety in numbers’ tactic to reduce the risk of predation. When a flock is feeding on the ground, a few sentinel birds keep watch from nearby trees, rising into the air and screeching loudly at the approach of any danger. Birds sing songs to defend territory and attract mates. Hence, it’s the males that sing the most—usually during breeding season.

Assembled below are some ceramic pieces with bird imagery, birds with their birdcalls, bird sculptures and bird humour from Michael Leunig.

 

“I don’t know anything about consciousness,” a Zen master once declared. “I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing.”   (A-wing and a-way)

 

 

Birds of a Feather--Marty Biernbaum

‘Birds of a Feather’ –Marty Biernbaum

 

 

 

Huntly Pottery, Bendigo Cockatoo Figurine

Huntly Pottery ceramic Cockatoo Figurine

Bendigo,Australia est. 1937

 

 

Roger-Capron ceramic chicken

Roger Capron – ceramic Funky Chicken sculpture

France

 

 

Paul Harvey---Bronze Sleeping Amazon-Campden Gallery,

Paul Harvey—Green bronze sculpture  ‘Sleeping Amazon’

Campden Gallery

 

 

Ceramic-ovoid vase Jacqueline Leighton Boyce_The arrival of the swift

Jacqueline Leighton Boyce footed ovoid vase — ‘The arrival of the swift’

 

 

 

Art Deco vase with Kingfisher motif

Shelly Art Deco vase with Kingfisher motif

30’s

 

 

Grace DePledge porcelain sgraffito nature cup

Grace De Pledge

 

I work with mid-range porcelain, which offers durability as well as a smooth surface for detailed decoration. Each one-of-a-kind piece is wheel-thrown and decorated entirely by hand, primarily through carving, as well as the application of slip and, occasionally, 20K gold luster. I explore textural patterns in my work through incised ornament, movement, fluid lines, and a peaceful palette of transparent glazes. I make intricately carved, functional pots to celebrate and bring elegance to everyday life. I am inspired by nature in all its aspects: the diversity of flora and fauna, habitats, seasons, and most importantly, the embodiment of life, growth, and vitality.

 

 

Parrots At Sunset--Jeanne Porter

‘Parrots At Sunset’ –Jeanne Porter

 

 

Kookaburras always seem to have a smile on their beak and sure know how to have a good laugh. (Recording below)

 

 

 

 

 

Adelaide Rosella-bird -image by Danny McCreadie

Adelaide Rosella —- -image by Danny McCreadie

 

 

 

 

Primavera and-Saint Radegonde, Gustave Asch.---Blue Ceramic Vase with Birds and Vegetation Decoration. France,-Circa-1930.-Height-30-Cm

Primavera and Saint Radegonde, Gustave Asch.—Blue Ceramic Vase with Birds and Vegetation Decoration.

France, Circa 1930. Height 30 Cm

 

 

 

‘Spring diary of a small brown bird’ — Michael Leunig

 

 

 

The Academy of Very Ancient Music---Michael Leunig - a couple meeting birds

‘The Academy of Very Ancient Music’  —  Michael Leunig

 

 

Vessels by Dona Reed-,---Rainshadow Arts

Vessels by Dona Reed,—Rainshadow Arts

 

 

Australian magpie

Monochrome Magpie

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vintage Lisa Larson stoneware pottery bird figure Gustavsberg Sweden

Vintage Lisa Larson stoneware pottery bird figure — Gustavsberg Sweden

 

 

Retro Danish ceramic vase with abstract bird motif

Chairish

 

 

Constanin Brancusi : ‘Bird In Space Bird Sculpture’

 

 

Boyadjiev Latchezar glass sculpture - Flight

Boyadjiev Latchezar glass sculpture – ‘Flight’

 

 

Roman Khalilov. ceramic sculpture

Roman Khalilov. Blackbird ceramic sculpture

 

 

 

Bird Vessel by Jim and Shirl Parmentier. This elegant stoneware sculpture -Shirl-Parmentier

Carved Bird Vessel by Jim and Shirl Parmentier.

 

 

 

Ardmore bird tureen

 

 

‘Bird of Paradise’ performing trance dance

BBC Earth

 

Rene Lalique — geese in flight glass vase

 

 

Mosaic garden circle wieth stones

Mosaic garden circle with stones – High Legh, Manchester

 

 

‘Birds passing on the secrets of the universe to a sleeping baby’

Michael Leunig

 

 

Ceramic wall art -- 'Girl & Bird',-Helen Kemp

Ceramic wall art — ‘Girl & Bird’, Helen Kemp

 

 

Primordial Nest

 

 

Robin sitting on female garden sculpture

Robin on female garden sculpture

 

 

Beautiful Bisque White and Pink Royal Dux Porcelain Cockatoo Parrot Bohemia

Royal Dux Porcelain Parrot, Bohemia

 

 

 

Charles Catteau Deco vase with parrot and flora

Art Deco ovoid vase, parrot motif — Charles Catteau

 

 

Picasso Madoura jug

Pablo Picasso Madoura jug

 

 

Mosaic birds in hair_mini-2209--Irinia Charny

Mosaic birds in hair_mini — Irinia Charny

 

 

Ceramic sculpture birds--Theodoros Papagiannis

Theodoros Papagiannis ceramic bird sculpture

Greece

 

Phoenix cake plate - Chinese Art Deco

Phoenix cake plate – Chinese Art Deco

 

 

Art Deco Grès Keramis vase with birds by Charles Catteau-Belgium,1925

Art Deco Grès Keramis vase with birds by Charles Catteau-Belgium,1925

 

 

Arianna-Gallo-robin-bird-mosaic

Arianna Gallo robin bird mosaic

 

 

Polish ceramic Love Birds on a rustic Wooden Cloud by Popielnik

Polish ceramic Love birds on a rustic Wooden Cloud by Popielnik

 

 

Art Nouveau-Amphora Vase with bird decoration

Art Nouveau  – Amphora Vase with bird decoration

 

 

A northern cardinal sits on a tree branch in falling snow in the New York City suburb of Nyack

A northern cardinal sits on a tree branch in falling snow in the New York City suburb of Nyack

 

 

Annette Corcora--Scarlet Tanager porcelain teapot 2003

Annette Corcora — Scarlet Tanager porcelain teapot 2003

 

 

Driftwood bird sculpture by Jeffro Utto

Driftwood bird sculpture by Jeffro Utto

 

 

A mandarin duck on a tree by the Solyonaya Protoka River, outside Vladivostok, Russia.

A mandarin duck on a tree by the Solyonaya Protoka River

Vladivostok, Russia.

 

 

Acoma Pueblo Parrot Hand Coiled Parrot Seed Pot - Dolores Lewis Garcia

Acoma Pueblo Parrot Hand Coiled Parrot Seed Pot – Dolores Lewis Garcia

 

 

Porcelain Vase Camille Tharaud

Porcelain Vase Camille Tharaud

 

 

Mid CenturyVintage Desimone De Simone Pottery Pitcher

Desimone De Simone Pottery Pitcher – Mid Century

 

 

Volery of Birds -Tim Biskup

Volery of Birds –Tim Biskup

18” x 17.75”

 

 

Zeus_Naucratis_Painter bowl_Louvre

Zeus with an eagle, cup tondo by the Naucratis Painter, c. 560 BC

Louvre, Paris

 

 

Aaron Bohrod Bird shaped pitcher with incised feather pattern

Aaron Bohrod — Bird shaped pitcher with incised feather pattern

 

 

 

Charles Catteau Boch Freres-Art-Deco-vase

Charles Catteau — Boch Freres Art Deco vase

 

 

 

Thoth Simon Gudgen bird sculpture--60cm

Thoth Simon Gudgen bird sculpture

60cm height

 

 

 

Stephanie Cunningham at-the Glasshouse Gallery—Penzance—Cornwall

 

 

Simon Griffiths sculpture Ferruginous Hawk

Simon Griffiths sculpture —  Ferruginous Hawk

 

 

 

Sgraffito plate 2011 by Laurie Landry At Charlie Parker Pottery

Sgraffito carved plate by Laurie Landry

Charlie Parker Pottery, 2011

 

 

SF-long-eared-owl

Sarah Farrelly – Long Eared Owl

 

Raku bird feeder--RingoffirePottery-etsy

Raku bird feeder–RingoffirePottery-etsy

 

 

 

Royal Haeger-crimson pheasant bird figurine

Royal Haeger — crimson pheasant bird figurine

 

 

Mark Chagall ceramic vase

Mark Chagall ceramic vase

 

 

Moorcroft-owl in tree vase

Moorcroft owl in tree vase

 

 

Murano Glass birds---Avventurine Tucan duo

Murano Glass birds—Avventurine Tucan duo

 

 

Marty-Ray---Bird-Walk---2011 ceramic gourd vessel

Marty Ray–‘Bird Walk’ —2011 ceramic gourd vessel

 

 

Mata Ortiz Pottery-by-Armando Valles---Song Birds

Sgraffito Mata Ortiz Pottery by Armando Valles—  ‘Song Birds’

 

 

Murmuration-of-Starlings

‘Murmation of Starlings’ – Lynne Newton

Somerset Levels and Moors Wetland

 

 

Owl Family Vase -- Jennifer Falter

Large Owl Family Vase — Jennifer Falter

 

 

Merric Boyd bowl, blue and cream glaze, interior painted with bird's nest, exterior with birds in flight, painted by Arthur Boyd,

Merric Boyd bowl, blue and cream glaze, interior painted with bird’s nest, exterior with birds in flight, painted by Arthur Boyd

 

 

Michelle Shields is the artist of this Acoma pot decorated with birds and flowers-MudheadGallery

Michelle Shields —  Acoma pot decorated with birds and flowers

Mudhead Gallery

 

 

Paul-Harvey-Kingfisher-bronze

Paul Harvey turquoise Kingfisher in bronze

 

 

Mid Century Modern Porcelain White Bird Sculpture by luola on Etsy

Mid Century Modern Porcelain White Dove Sculpture by luola on Etsy

 

 

Michael-Simon-bird-motif-pottery teapot

Michael Simon teapot

 

 

Ceramic Kingfisher bird — Brigitte Evrard on Etsy

 

 

Raven and the Halloween Moon Luminary vase

Lee Wolfe Pottery —  ‘Raven and the Halloween Moon Luminary’ lantern

 

 

Pot-from-Akrotiri,-early-17C (Thera)

Pot from Akrotiri with swallow, early 17th Century BC (Thera)

(Minoan Bronze Age settlement on the volcanic Greek island of Santorini)

 

 

Molins Balleste Art Deco Spelter Figure of a Dancer with Birds

Molins Balleste Art Deco Spelter Figure of a Dancer with Birds

 

 

Stylized Gull in Flight — Somchai

 

 

Colourful Moorcroft-Chapada-Toucan-46-10-vase

Moorcroft-Chapada-Toucan vase

 

 

Royal Doulton Titanian ware flattened globular vase

Royal Doulton Titanian ware flattened globular vase,

painted by H. Allen with Night Heron

Bamfords Auctions

 

 

 

Amphora birds in flight Art Nouveau vase

Amphora ‘birds in flight’ Art Nouveau vase

31cm height

 

 

CHILD-&-CHILD-1880-1915-Superb-Winged-Heart-Brooch-in-the-Pre-Raphaelite-style-Gold-Silver-Enamel-Opal-Diamond

Child-&-Child– Winged Heart Brooch

1880-1915

 

 

‘Guess What? …we have voted you chef of the year, we love your work’

Michael Leunig

 

 

Charlie Tefft Flat Vase with Birds at MudFire Gallery

Charlie Tefft Flat Vase with Birds

MudFire Gallery

 

 

Birds in a tree - Brisbane,-Australia,-by-Freda-and-Aaron,

Birds in Tree silhouette – Freda and Aaron, Brisbane

 

 

Stephen Bowers cockatoo plate

Stephen Bowers cockatoo plate

 

 

French Clamecy pitcher

 

 

Catherine Chaillou Raku woodpecker

Catherine Chaillou Raku woodpecker

 

 

Elaine-Coleman-ceramic-tumbler

Elaine Coleman ceramic tumbler

 

 

Gallery_Sandy_Toupenet_Pelican Ceramic Sculpture with Cloisonné Enamel, French, 1960

Ceramic Pelican Sculpture with Cloisonné Enamel, French, 1960

Gallery Sandy Toupenet

 

 

Gaynor and Paul Ostinelli and Priest-ceramic bird---Studio Pottery

Gaynor Ostinelli and Paul Priest ceramic bird sculpture—Studio Pottery

 

 

Haeger green Parrot

Haeger green Parrot

Haegernerd, Flickr

 

 

Rainy Naha (Hopi, born 1949) ~ Whiteware pottery vase with symmetrical hummingbirds design

Rainy Naha  ~ Hopi whiteware pottery vase with symmetrical hummingbirds design

 

 

 

 

Handbuilt eagle motif mug – Justin Rothshank

Mudfire

 

 

Jacqueline Leighton Boyce bird and botanical decorated vase

Jacqueline Leighton Boyce bird and botanical decorated vase

 

 

Carved pigeon vase by Joseph Mogin

Carved pigeon vase by Joseph Mogin, France

 

 

 

Boch ceramic vase - Charles Catteau

Boch ceramic Art Deco vase – Charles Catteau

 

 

Wood carved Kotuku (White Heron) by Rex Homan, Māori artist, NZ

Wood carved Kotuku (White Heron) by Rex Homan, Māori artist, NZ

 

 

Large Porcelain Sgraffito Moon Raven Tree Mug by TheMuddyRaven,

Large Porcelain Sgraffito Moon Raven Tree Mug by TheMuddyRaven,

 

 

Linda MacCaulay parrot sculpture--Tread-Sculptures

Linda MacCaulay parrot sculpture–Tread Sculptures

Kangaroo Ground, Victoria

 

 

Lockbund Sculpture Gallery---Artists---Bridget McCrum

Lockbund Sculpture Gallery—Bridget McCrum bronze bird

 

 

Kaka,-New Zealand Bush Parrot-©-Rex Homan

Kaka, New Zealand Bush Parrot-©-Rex Homan