Vintage Sid Luck Blue outlet Speckled Art Pottery Pitcher with Lid

This Vintage Blue Speckled Art Pottery Pitcher with Lid is in great condition and signed Sid Luck 1994.
This beautiful pitcher measures 8" T x 6" W.
Earlier generations of potters in the Luck family had to supplement their income by farming, but Sid took a different path. He joined the marines, served in Vietnam, earned a degree in science education with a specialty in chemistry from North Carolina State University and taught high school chemistry in Charlotte, Tallahassee, Florida, Winston-Salem, and finally, in Seagrove. Making pottery was never far from his mind, however, and he always kept a pottery wheel nearby “to keep my hand in.”

By the mid-1970s, Seagrove had emerged as a shopping destination as word spread about this unique pottery community. After much thought, Sid Luck took a fateful plunge. “I had always wanted to strictly do pottery, so I got the nerve up in 1990, to resign my teaching position, and do this full time. And I have never regretted it to this day.”

He prefers to make the utilitarian wares that are deeply rooted in the local tradition. “I like doing functional things, I like carrying on the tradition I grew up with. So I like to do pitchers, and jugs, and I like crocks, and I do pickling jars and churns and those kinds of things. They just remind me of where I came from, I guess. I feel comfortable doing those things. “

Today the sixth and seventh generations of Lucks are practicing the craft of making pottery. Sid's sons Jason and Matthew grew up in their Dad's pottery shop and each has taken the craft to a new level. Now Matt's children are learning at their grandpa's wheel. Sid admits being happy about all of that. “I'm very, very proud and honored that they would feel that they ought to carry it on.” outlet