@SFOMuseum Instagram Posts Tagged ceramics This is SFO Museum's archive of the @SFOMuseum Instagram account. There are 64 posts and this is page 1 of 6. See all the tags or all the Instagram posts that have been archived so far.
The fearless lion motif was introduced to China alongside Buddhism where it symbolizes strength and protection.
This image was posted on April 23, 2024.
#chineseceramics #ceramics #lion #buddhism
Our newest exhibition, “Everyday Elegance in Chinese Ceramics” is now on display!
This image was posted on January 22, 2024.
#chineseceramics #china #pottery #ceramics
This tile shows three cranes flying above waves, with a full moon and two clouds behind them.
This image was posted on February 07, 2023.
#japonisme #japan #design #tile #ceramics #transferware
Japanese art was influenced by other Eastern countries, such as China and India.
This image was posted on December 13, 2022.
#japonisme #japan #design #dragon #ceramics
In the 1860s, Minton & Company, a major English ceramic producer whose wares ranged from affordable transferware to hand-decorated porcelain and large-scale monumental design, acquired books of Japanese birds and flowers.
This image was posted on July 11, 2022.
#japonisme #japan #design #minton #ceramics
The enslaved potter known as Dave inscribed poetry onto the pottery he made over the course of more than forty years.
This image was posted on January 04, 2022.
#stonewarestories #ceramics #edgefield #pottery
Thomas Chandler and other potters of Edgefield, South Carolina, often mixed different clays together to achieve the proper balance and ground their clays in a pug mill to obtain the right consistency for turning.
This image was posted on November 19, 2021.
#stonewarestories #thomaschandler #edgefield #ceramics
Shortly after arriving in Edgefield, South Carolina, Thomas Chandler mastered the use of local kaolin clay and alkaline glazes, creating beautiful pots that exhibited a celadon-like gloss surface similar to those produced in China and Korea.
This image was posted on October 22, 2021.
#stonewarestories #ceramics #pottery
Despite owning at least three potteries in South Carolina, Collin Rhodes likely never worked as a potter himself.
This image was posted on September 16, 2021.
#stonewarestories #ceramics #edgefield
The Douglas DC-3, which first flew in 1935, was one of the first airliners to be equipped with a galley.
This image was posted on March 27, 2020.
#avgeek #aviation #dc3 #dinnerware #tableware #ceramics #museumfromhome
For four generations, women who live in the isolated, African-American hamlet of Gee's Bend, have been creating bold dynamic quilts.
This image was posted on February 03, 2020.
#sfac #publicart #blackhistorymonth #louisianabendolph #quilting #geesbend #quilt #ceramics #tiles #bhm
For four generations, women who live in the isolated, African-American hamlet of Gee's Bend, have been creating bold dynamic quilts.
This image was posted on February 03, 2020.
#sfac #publicart #blackhistorymonth #louisianabendolph #quilting #geesbend #quilt #ceramics #tiles #bhm











