Pottery

POTTERY
Introduction
Pottery is one of the oldest human inventions, originating before the
Neolithic period, with ceramic objects like the Gravettian culture Venus
of Dolní Věstonice figurine discovered in the Czech Republic dating back
to 29,000–25,000 BC, and pottery vessels that were discovered in Jiangxi,
China, which date back to 18,000 BC. Early Neolithic and pre-Neolithic
pottery artifacts have been found, in Jōmon Japan (10,500 BC), the
Russian Far East (14,000 BC), Sub-Saharan Africa (9,400 BC), South
America (9,000s–7,000s BC), and the Middle East (7,000s–6,000s BC).
POTTERY
• Pottery is made by forming a ceramic (often clay) body into
objects of a desired shape and heating them to high
temperatures (600–1600 °C) in a bonfire, pit or kiln and
induces reactions that lead to permanent changes including
increasing the strength and rigidity of the object. Much
pottery is purely utilitarian, but some can also be regarded
as ceramic art. A clay body can be decorated before or after
firing.
POTTERY
Clay-based pottery can be divided into
three main groups: earthenware,
stoneware and porcelain. These require
increasingly more specific clay material,
and increasingly higher firing
temperatures. All three are made in
glazed and unglazed varieties, for different
purposes. All may also be decorated by
various techniques. In many examples the
group a piece belongs to is immediately
visually apparent, but this is not always
the case. The fritware of the Islamic world
does not use clay, so technically falls
outside these groups. Historic pottery of
all these types is often grouped as either
“fine” wares, relatively expensive and
well-made, and following the aesthetic
taste of the culture concerned, or
alternatively “coarse”, “popular”, “folk” or
“village” wares, mostly undecorated, or
simply so, and often less well-made.
NATIONAL ARTIST IN THE
PHILIPPINES
• Fidel Go • Teddy pettyjohn
Fidel Go
National Folk Artist, Pottery
While in the Ilocos Region recently, we were privileged
to witness Philippine National Folk Artist for Pottery,
Fidel Go, 68, a Filipino-Chinese mestizo, at work.
Watching him perform intently at his craft with his

hands and feet was, at the least, an inspiring
experience.
His works find themselves displayed in several of the

country’s plush hotels reaching as far as Palawan and
Davao in the south.
Photos taken October 15, 2008 at his Burnay-making

pottery shop in Vigan, Ilocos Sur
Continuing the tradition of the craft inherited and
preserving the art of making burnays, Fidel Go was
awarded with the Gawad Manlilikha ng Bayan
(National Folk Artist Award) of the National
Commission on Culture and the Arts in 1990. Potter
of burnay jar.
Fidel Go (right) demonstrates how to make jars to

several balikbayans who were accompanied by
Tawid News Magasin to his jar factory when they
visited Vigan City. The sangguniang panlungsod of
Vigan through a resolution nominated Go and
Agapita Cachero to the Gawad Manlilikha ng Bayan
in recognition of their valuable contributions in jar
and ceramics making.
He comes from a family of artist and businessmen.
His father who married a Filipinafrom Vigan City
started the pottery business in 1922 which Go
inherited in 1970 after his father’s death. One of
his brothers is into the china-ware business in
China.
To him, the burnay carries with a family history

that traces its root in the hinterlands of mainland
China.
Go’s Ruby Pottery is one of the two pottery

factories producing burnay in Pagburnayan, Vigan
City. His works find themselves displayed in
several of the country’s plush hotels reaching as
far as Palawan and Davao in the south.
In 1998, he was one of the 100 Filipino artist given

the Centennial Award, a once-in-a-lifetime
recognition for local arists. The National
Commission for Culture and Arts declared him as a
National Folk Artist.
Tessy Pettyjohn
National folk artists, Pottery
Tessy Pettyjohn is a renowned pioneer of Philippine
pottery, clay art, and sculpture. Starting her craft in
the late 1970s, she has had many shows both here
and abroad in her long career. Although she has
retired from teaching, she now concentrates on doing
her own work for exhibits at her Laguna workshop
studio. She continues to explore the use of
indigenous Philippine clays, pigments, and minerals
for making high fire ceramics and glazes.
Tessy and her husband Jon are at the forefront of

ceramic arts in the Philippines. They have developed
over many years, masterpieces, which focus heavily
on the use of uniquely Filipino materials.
AWARDS:
• She won the Shell art award for a sculpture. T: The Shell
National Students Art Competition. She made a bust out of clay
and she won.
1974.1st Prize Awardee Furniture Design Competition, Design
Center of the Philippines
SOLO EXHIBITIONS :
2019. Continuing Growth, Silverlens. Manila
2014. MY Garden, Art informal Manila
2013. Aianthous, Art informal Manila
2010. Cornucopia, Izukan Gallery, Manila
2001. Solo exhibition, Izukan Gallery, Manila

SOLO EXHIBITIONS :
2019. Continuing Growth, Silverlens. Manila
2014. MY Garden, Art informal Manila
2013. Aianthous, Art informal Manila

2010. Cornucopia, Izukan Gallery, Manila
2001. Solo exhibition, Izukan Gallery, Manila
1996. Solo exhibition, Hiraya Gallery Manila
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POTTERY

Watching him perform intently at his craft with his

His works find themselves displayed in several of the

Photos taken October 15, 2008 at his Burnay-making

Fidel Go (right) demonstrates how to make jars to

To him, the burnay carries with a family history

Go’s Ruby Pottery is one of the two pottery

In 1998, he was one of the 100 Filipino artist given

Tessy and her husband Jon are at the forefront of

1974.1st Prize Awardee Furniture Design Competition, Design

Center of the Philippines

2019. Continuing Growth, Silverlens. Manila

2014. MY Garden, Art informal Manila

2013. Aianthous, Art informal Manila

2010. Cornucopia, Izukan Gallery, Manila

2001. Solo exhibition, Izukan Gallery, Manila

2013. Aianthous, Art informal Manila

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