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UND Pottery North Dakota School Of Mines Vase Mattson. 4 5/8" tall with no<br>damage or restorations. Really an incredible and complex glaze on a very cool<br>form.<br><br>UND pottery was a turn of the 20th century effort to promote “a wealth of design<br>material peculiar to the prairies” — as Margaret Cable wrote in a 1926 brochure.<br>UND Pottery is now highly collectible, has been featured on the PBS series<br>Antiques Roadshow and is the subject of several books.<br><br>Ms. Julia Mattson joined the University of North Dakota Pottery or ceramics<br>department faculty in 1924 the same year she graduated from the school. She<br>spent the next thirty-nine years teaching in the Ceramics Department. She was a<br>hard worker and extremely devoted to the production of UND art pottery. Ms.<br>Mattson continued making art pottery at UND until her retirement in 1963. Ms.<br>Julia Mattson later moved to California, where she died in 1967.<br><br>tw119