Jean Barsony b. 7 June 1919

Also known as Jeam Mary Harbutt Bird
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Name
Jean Barsony
Also known as Jeam Mary Harbutt Bird
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist
Birth date
7 June 1919
Birth note
family firm Harbutt's Plasticine Bathampton, near Bath, Somerset.
Death date
4 May 2015
Death place
Casino, NSW
Residence
  • c.1955 - 1956 Bankstown, Sydney, NSW
  • c.1956 - c.1990 Guilford, N.S.W., Australia
  • c.1990 - 2015 Casino, NSW

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British artist Jean Bird, from the family of William Harbutt Plasticines in Somerset, migrated to Sydney in the 1940s working at a Sydney pottery. She married George Barsony (q.v) in the early 1950s and together the couple formed Barsony Ceramics in Guilford. The firm was highly successful in home decor ceramic lampshades, vases, wall plaques , ashtrays until the 1970s. Jean hand painted the signature black pained figures adding colour touches and motifs, red lips and accessories such as pearl drop earrings. Jean also made the multi stripe coloured plastic lampshades for the figure bases.