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Metadata
Accession # |
2018.45.1 |
Item Name |
Vase, Flower |
Description |
A large heavy,glazed decorative clay vase. Printed on the buff coloured bottom of the vase is "P Knudstrup ELORA CANADA". The vase is round with a narrow neck and flaring lip. The lower third of the vase is glazed with a matte brown-blue glaze and the upper part has a shiny blue-green glaze over top four spiral designs. |
Date |
1970 CIRCA |
Provenance |
This vase is from the estate of Marjorie McDowell (nee Trask) of Burlington. It was made by Peter Knudstrup (1929-2006) of Elora in the 1970s. Peter Knudstrup was born on 9 June 1929 and raised in Denmark where he lived beside a pottery works and became fascinated with the art. In the 1950s, he apprenticed at a pottery studio near Copenhagen, while studying art at night school and working as a jazz saxophonist. He emigrated to Canada as a young man, working first in Northern Ontario, laying dynamite for a logging companying. He then moved to Toronto and worked in an aluminum manufacturing plant. In Toronto, he met his wife, nurse Nancy Chattaway, and they decided to start a pottery studio of their own. Around 1967, they purchased the old Chalmer's Presbyterian Church building on Henderson Street in Elora and began the process of converting it into a home and studio. They officially opened the business with an open house at the studio on 21 June 1970. Peter Knudstrup and Nancy Chattaway had three children. Peter passed away 22 February 2006. |
Person \ Organization |
Knudstrup, Peter Knudstrup Pottery |
Place |
Elora |
Year Range from |
1965 |
Year Range to |
1975 |