Rose Cabat was an American studio ceramicist, classified as part of the mid-century modern movement who was best known for her innovative glazes upon small porcelain pots called 'feelies' often in the shape of onions and figs, and bowls.
14 Facts About Rose Cabat
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Rose Cabat was the oldest known actively practicing pottery artist in the United States.
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Rose Cabat began working in ceramics in 1940 after her husband brought home some clay from his job as an assistant to Vally Wiselthier, an art deco ceramicist who was making pieces for General Ceramics in Keasbey, New Jersey.
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The Rose Cabat's decided to move to Arizona around 1942 in order to alleviate his condition.
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Rose Cabat was able to make primitive ceramics from the extra clay that Erni was able to obtain from brickyards.
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Rose Cabat made some coil figures until Erni was able to convert a washing machine to a potter's wheel.
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Rose Cabat made ceramics in her spare time, as she worked in a munitions plant during World War II.
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Rose Cabat created a pot with a delicate closed neck, which could not hold even a single slender stem or stalk.
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Erni ran the business, weighed out the glaze components, while Rose Cabat did the craft and the art.
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In 1994, Rose Cabat was unnerved by Erni's anniversary painting, and in the following months, he wrote detailed instructions of how to take care of the business, and how he did things.
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Rose Katz Cabat died on January 25,2015, at the age of 100, survived by her three children and extended family.
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Rose Cabat developed a silky satiny glaze, and it was not until around 1960 that she had hit upon the first of the appropriate forms, svelte and sleek to match the glaze.
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Rose Cabat exclaimed, "Now this one's a feelie", coining the term.
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When Rose Cabat began working on feelies in the 1960s, American studio ceramics was still in its infancy.