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Unearthing the past By JAMIE KRONBORG A MODERN-day archaeological dig sparked by a fluted ceramic meat platter, glazed teapot, jug and a terracotta butter bell has led to a compelling journey into Beechworth’s industrial past. Everton potter Bob Schulze first saw the four pieces in the town’s Burke Museum about 36 years ago. The everyday domestic items from late colonial Victoria were labelled ‘Ovens Pottery Co’ but little else of their history provenance was known – except that Beechworth had once been home to a pottery. Burke Museum collections manager and curator Linda Peacock said she had later developed an appreciation for what she saw in her early career as “unique, utilitarian items – beautiful in their outward simplicity”. “Their contents long gone, the vessels in the museum retained within them their stories, but they were stories that only experience could decipher,” she said. Bob Schulze had enrolled at Wangaratta Senior Technical College in 1966. Jim Beattie, who had revived and reintroduced ceramics to the college art certificate course, then encouraged him to study ceramics at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. In 1975 Bob set up at Glenrowan a studio pottery called ‘Stonehedge’ with fellow potters Charlie Timma and Dave Edwards. Two years later he was offered an opportunity to work with the Nakazato family, potters for 13 generations on Kyushu island in south-western Japan and renowned for karatsu, raku and hagi-style works.
DISCOVERY:
Everton potter and historian Bob Schulze has unearthed the story of Beechworth’s colonial-era potteries with a book and exhibition at the town’s Burke Museum. PHOTO: Jamie Kronborg
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