Elizabeth Hazel Lissaman
Elizabeth Hazel Lissaman (11 October 1901 – 18 February 1991) was a New Zealand studio potter. Lissaman was born in Blenheim and grew up on her family's sheep station, Waireka, near Seddon. In 1969, Lissaman published Pottery for Pleasure in Australia and New Zealand, a book designed to support potters working with Australasian clays.
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Elizabeth Hazel Lissaman
- Name
- Elizabeth Lissaman
- Birth Name
- Elizabeth Hazel Lissaman
- Born
- 1 October 1901
- Birthplace
- Blenheim, New Zealand
- Died
- 18 February 1991
- Place of death
- Cambridge, New Zealand
- Known for
- Ceramics
- Nationality
- New Zealand
- Occupation
- ceramicist · potter
- Honours
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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Elizabeth Hazel Lissaman (11 October 1901 – 18 February 1991) was a New Zealand studio potter. Lissaman was born in Blenheim and grew up on her family's sheep station, Waireka, near Seddon. In 1969, Lissaman published Pottery for Pleasure in Australia and New Zealand, a book designed to support potters working with Australasian clays.
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Lissaman was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to pottery, in the 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours. Her work is held in several public collections, including the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and the Sarjeant Gallery. Lissaman died in Cambridge in 1991.
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• Name — Elizabeth Lissaman • Birth Name — Elizabeth Hazel Lissaman • Born — 1 October 1901 • Birthplace — Blenheim, New Zealand • Died — 18 February 1991 • Place of death — Cambridge, New Zealand • Known for — Ceramics
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- 1.Elizabeth Hazel Lissaman. Doreen. Blumhardt.
- 2.Remembering a pottery pioneer. Marlborough Express.
- 3.McPhee, Elena. Pottery pioneer's work conserved. Marlborough Express. 31 August 2015.
- 4.49010. 12 June 1982. 40.
- 5.Elizabeth Lissaman items, Te Papa. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
- 6.Elizabeth Lissaman items, Sarjeant Gallery. Sarjeant Gallery.
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