stoneware

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The handmade stoneware tiles of Florencia Rothschild at Wishbone honor femininity and self-care in mural-like assemblages of nudes engaging in yoga, Pilates and rest, foregrounding the human form without sexualizing it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

Besides the stoneware for the tang or stainless steel bowls for naengmyeon, Kang notes that another particular type of serving dish keeps popping up.

From Salon • Jun. 27, 2025

For decades, this force of nature has made a daily ritual of manipulating earth, water and fire to create perfectly imperfect stoneware dishes, bowls, teacups and vases as well as animal and cartoon character figurines.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2024

A recent work, a foot-high stoneware form, resembles a child’s stick-figure drawing, but with a Surrealist bent: Instead of a head, it has a blue-and-white delftware-style dinner plate; instead of eyes, there are painted butterflies.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2023

It was stacked with small mountains of pottery—not celadon work, but the very dark brown stoneware known as onggi, for storing food.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park