Canadian Pottery –Jarko Zavi Beautiful Stoneware Decanter Set-dated 1958

Description

Canadian Pottery – Jarko Zavi
Beautiful Stoneware Decanter Set
Decanter is around 9 1/2 inches tall
The five tumblers are around 3 1/4 inches tall
Decanter is Signed : Original Hand Made jarko Zavi CANADA 1958
Tumblers are also signed are image 4
EXCELLENT CONDITION
Shipping within Canada is .00 US
About the artist
Jarko Zavi (1907–1987) was a
Czech
-born Canadian ceramist and sculptor who lived and worked principally in Ontario. After attending art college in Czechoslovakia, he worked producing fine china at the Terra
Company for twelve years, rising to head of ceramics design.
[1]
Zavi fled to
Canada
just five days before the outbreak of
World War II
.
[2]
Soon after emigrating, he married Nunzia D'Angelo (1900–1968), a maker of
majolica
and folk pottery, and they had two daughters together.
[3]
[4]
First located on Gerrard Street in Toronto, the couple renamed their kitchen factory the Ceramic Art Studio. During the war years they produced a large array of ornamental pieces, sought after by buyers. Their output included ceramic fish, prancing horses, vases, candle holders, bowls, teapots and earrings.
[4]
Zavi diligently experimented with glazes, and he was able to produce colours that included Chinese red.
[2]
In 1945, he sculpted a bust of
Tomáš Masaryk
, the first president of Czechoslovakia, which was unveiled at a public ceremony with the mayor of Toronto present.
[5]
Zavi and D'Angelo relocated in 1946 to a rural setting outside
Cobourg
, where Zavi wanted to establish a ceramic arts centre.
[4]
In the same year, he was the subject of two features by the
National Film Board
.
[1]
His wife gave up studio work, although she appeared in public as a demonstrator and teacher for a few years at the
Canadian National Exposition
.
[4]
In 1959, they moved to
Brighton
.
[1]
Zavi maintained his studio practice as a lone artist, isolated from the craft community and museums and galleries.
[4]
He built his ceramic structures with his hands, without wire or papier-mâché molds. For his base material he used farm tile clay found in deposits near
Arnprior
.
[6]
Zavi's works were not universally praised; one reviewer of an Ottawa exhibit found the pieces on display to be rather commercial and unexceptional, despite their beautiful execution.
[7]
Somewhat unusually for a Canadian artist, he made his living entirely by his chosen art form. In 2014, some 40 to 50 of his pieces were displayed in a solo exhibition at a gallery in Brighton.
[1]
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