What We Like About This Planter
Each one of these Hand Painted Butterfly Planters is artist-signed and dated. Each is hand-painted with a soft, watercolor look unique to the individual artists, making each piece rare and lovely art. Each series celebrates one of the garden's friends and depicts them and their healthy habitat in rich and detailed color. Constructed from durable stoneware clay, they will weather naturally with time and grow to become a unique centerpiece in your garden.
About Stoneware Clay
Any medium to fine-grained secondary clay which matures in the stoneware range, usually above 1,200 degrees centigrade, and creates a dense, hard, vitreous, functional piece of pottery or sculpture.
About Burley Clay Products Company
The Burley Clay Products Company started producing large stoneware crocks and jugs in 1923. In 1933, the company switched focus to the production of birdbaths and garden pottery. The products are made in the U.S.A. and are manufactured using a unique blend of the finest clay from southeastern Ohio mines. This area is world-famous for its stoneware clay, and Burley Clay mixes produce the strongest, most attractive stoneware available in the world. The birdbaths and larger products are made by the rarely used method of jiggering. It takes an artisan many years to learn how to do this and the knowledge is usually passed down through families.