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