(It was made before West Virginia existed.) The Donahoe plant was abandoned in 1906 and the old pottery wheel was thrown to the junk at a machine shop. It was there that Dan Mercer found it.

Slabs of freshly mixed pewter-toned wet clay wait patiently inside Old Edgefield Pottery to achieve their calling atop Justin Guy’s well-worked wheel. Guy, Master Potter in residence and ...

“Throwing on the wheel is one of the hardest things to ... Gini Keating is an artist in residence at Old Poway Pottery in Old Poway Park where she volunteers on Saturdays. Keating can be seen ...

So was his father. And at 8 years old, Mr. Giubega said, he started to play on a pottery wheel, too. Mr. Giubega, now 63, and his wife, Marieta Giubega, 48, are potters in Horezu, Romania ...