About

Prancing Pony Pottery focuses on creating small-batch production wheel-thrown and hand-built stoneware that can be enjoyed every day. Each piece of pottery is individually crafted, fired, and then glazed by potter Anna Marie Torre Wright in her Richardsville, Virginia, studio. Since each piece of Prancing Pony Pottery is hand-made by the artisan, your item will be a one-of-a-kind piece of pottery that you can use and enjoy every day!

Stoneware pottery has a wonderful feel and heft to it. Food seems to taste better when eaten from hand-made pottery; tea a little warmer when sipped from a mug that was hand-formed just for you. Glaze colors can run the gamut from a translucent blush over the clay’s surface to intense tones with a lot of depth. Many of Prancing Pony Pottery’s pieces are glazed in earthy hues over a clay body that has a lot of character.

All Prancing Pony Pottery stoneware is created using lead-free glazes and most pieces are dishwasher, oven, and microwave safe.

In the summer of ’69 (or thereabouts) during a digging adventure, Anna Marie Torre Wright discovered this amazing gift from the earth called clay. With her mother's encouragement, the little girl made a pinch pot and thus a love affair blossomed. Whenever the earth was disrupted on the family farm, if there was any clay to be found in the sandy soil, Anna Marie would scoop it up and enjoy the feel of it in her hands as well as the promise that it could be made into something.

Now that ‘little girl’ gets to play with clay all the time.