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Daniel Christopher PontorieroUnited States → Milan

Dapo seated at a wide studio table surrounded by unfinished clay pieces and tools — Studio portraitMaterial in progress

Artist / Ceramicist

Turning mud
into art, useful
and beautiful.

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Wheel-thrown
Handbuilt

Practice noteMilano

Clay starts as mud in the ground, turned and shaped by hand to create new life and beginnings.

Functional ware Sculpture

Available / Selected

Works

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Giallo, a yellow ceramic sculpture

Giallo

Handbuilt sculpture · 2025

€800View the piece

Ascendance, a blue ceramic bowl with climbing figures

Ascendance

Wheel-thrown stoneware · 2026

€180View the piece

Kiss, an expressive hand-built ceramic sculpture

Kiss

Handbuilt sculpture · 2025

€120View the piece

Radiance, a yellow and black glazed moon jar

Radiance

Moon jar · 2025

€250View the piece

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DAPOTTERY ceramic work installed in a bright contemporary gallery — Exhibitions / Recent presentations / 2025–26

Exhibitions / Selected recent

Recent
exhibitions.

Selected presentations of DAPOTTERY work across Milan and Lombardy.

Apr 9–16, 2026 Argilla Frattura Matteo Mauro Studio · Milan Jan 22, 2026 Gruppo Cosmo Milan · Group exhibition Nov 22, 2025 Castello Belgioioso Lombardy · Group exhibition

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Competitions / 2024–26

The studio
travels.

All competitions

Dapo throwing a tall vessel during the Menemen pottery competition

20 minutes / one form / in public

2026Menemen5th Intl. Pottery Festival · Türkiye 2026FaenzaLive wheel-throwing · Italy 2025Menemen4th Intl. Pottery Festival · Türkiye 2025Menton6e Marché de la Céramique · France 2024FaenzaArgillà Italia · Italy

Work with Dapo / Milan

Lessons and
commissions.

Lesson

Private pottery

Time at the wheel or handbuilding, shaped around your pace.

€50 · 90 min · Enquire Course

Eight weeks

An eight-week introduction to centering and form at the wheel.

€380 · 8 weeks · Enquire Commission

Commission

Objects, editions and one-off works, made to commission.

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