Seven Species Handmade Seder Plate by Liz Lauter
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The Star of the Seder. Celebrate the beauty of spring and Passover with this vibrant Seven Species Handmade Seder Plate Set by California artist Liz Lauter. Featuring colorful painted designs of Biblical fruits: pomegranates, dates, figs, lemons, grapes, and olives and Hebrew lettering in the plate's large Star of David names the six ceremonial foods for the Seder Plate.
- 16” diameter
- Handcrafted using traditional majolica techniques with terra cotta clay
- Low-fire glaze and hand-painted with ceramic colors
- Each piece is handmade and one-of-a-kind, so slight irregularities in surface and form add to the artistry
- Hand-wash only, towel dry
Meet the artist
Liz Lauter is a West Marin ceramicist whose majolica Tree of Life menorahs blend Mexican folk art, Italian technique and her love of botany.
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Meet the artist
Liz Lauter
Liz Lauter is a West Marin ceramicist whose majolica Tree of Life menorahs blend Mexican folk art, Italian technique and her love of botany.
- Based in
- West Marin, California
- Since
- 2019
- Craft
- Majolica-painted ceramic Judaica
Liz Lauter is a California ceramic artist based in West Marin, north of San Francisco, who makes colorful, hand-painted Judaica. "Creating Judaica is like bringing the most honored guest to a celebration," she has said. Her Judaica is an expression of her Jewish roots growing up in multicultural San Francisco, surrounded by Mexican folk art and Italian culture.
She started young, learning ceramics at 11, and later studied art and botany, finishing a BFA at UC Davis in 1978. From 1984 to 1988 she lived in Israel, studying garment design at Bezalel in Jerusalem and running a fashion studio there. She taught high-school ceramics at Redwood High School in Larkspur from 2000 to 2019, studied majolica ceramics in Deruta, Italy in 2018, and retired in 2019 to focus on her studio.
Her menorahs and seder plates draw on the Arbol de la Vida, the Mexican Tree of Life, painted on both sides with birds, leaves, fruit and flowers. At ModernTribe that means Tree of Life menorahs in several sizes, a Long Menorah, and a Seven Species seder plate set.
Good to know
- ExhibitionContemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco (2024)
- RetailThe Jewish Museum shop, New York (Tree of Life menorah)
- TrainingMajolica ceramics, Deruta, Italy (2018)
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