PRIVATE COLLECTION - JOES WHEELTHROWN POTTERY
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A RARE PHOTO REVEALS BURIED MESSER TREASURES
This recently discovered photograph, shows some of Joes's finest wheelthrown designs at the Bowman county fair . Joe and Eunice set up a booth to demonstrate to the community exactly what goes on in that refurbished coop. The display was a huge hit as onseers were mesmerized as their local clay turned into art, right before their eyes.
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FROM THE EARTH TO THE COLLECTOR...A TRUE LABOR OF LOVE
After the Salt and Peppers were poured and trimmed, ....after all the Steers were branded, these wheel thrown masterpieces were the pottery that Joe and Eunice looked forward to creating the most.
"My aim is to make the owner feel that here is his native soil, brought into his house, and made beautiful and useful by the skill of human hands" ~Joseph Messer
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With Joe at the wheel, he could go crazy with shapes as well as his experimental glazes created from sources as obscure as pulverized "Depression Glass" (ruby and cobalt) from broken glassware found in the dump etc. Some results they could predict but most an unexpected gift from the kiln!
