Lee-Ann Chellis Wessel

Guild Fellow Pottery/Porcelain 1989

Demi-Tasse Miniatures
4 Edgewood Terrace
Northampton, MA 01060
Lee-AnnW@comcast.net

Decorative arts styles and their places in history are very important to me. I work to create accurate representations of specific examples of antique pottery and porcelain in 1/12, 1/6, and ¼ scales. In addition to the pottery I also do panel paintings after Old Masters using traditional egg tempera techniques.

Ceramic pieces are cast in original molds with clay slips glazed and fired appropriately to achieve the look and feel of the original pieces I reproduce. Each piece is entirely decorated by hand.

I tend to produce work in collections of types of ware particular to a specific time and place from history. These images show examples of the types of ware on which I am currently working. All shown are in 1/12th scale.

Works are produced in extremely limited editions and are available nearly exclusively at Guild Shows.

Italian Renaissance
“Young Woman in Mythological Guise” c.1480-1485
after Sandro Botticelli;
“Three Graces plate” Gubbio c. 1524 (1 1/8” d.)

English and Dutch Delftware
"Monteith bowl" probably Dutch 1700-1710
(9/16” h. X 1 1/8” d.)

English and American Arts and Crafts
Plates after William de Morgan c.1890
(1 9/16” d. and 1 1/8” d.);
Group after Paul Revere Pottery Works of Boston;
Saturday Evening Girls Club 1908-1942 Plate (13/16” d.)

Tiles
"Dutch Delft animal tiles" c. 1620-1640;
"American Arts and Crafts Peacock and flower tiles" after Batchelder and Calco tiles 1920-1933

Chinese Export Porcelain
“Garniture set and guglet” 1775-1785;
Lidded jar 1” h.
These four pieces made for “Mount Vernon in Miniature”