Plan your road trip to Cambridge for 40 Year Maxwell Street Days Tradition August 4-5

“Perfectly imPerfect” with Rowe Pottery

There’s lots of buzz in our finished goods area this week as we prepare for our annual Maxwell Street blowout sale. We’re getting ready to roll out our production carts loaded with treasures for our collectors to enjoy at our best prices of the year.  Owner Bev loves prepping for the annual event… knowing our customer’s travel from around the United States to visit and get their hands on not quite perfect pottery at great prices is so fun, I love seeing customers year after year and watching to see who will be the first in line.  There is an excitement in the air that can’t be beat.

It’s an all hands-on deck process to get ready for the annual sale, you’ll find loads (literally) of intriguing items at our sale.  Since we produce hand thrown, handcrafted pottery each day, there’s natural variation in the throwing, decorating and kiln processes.  Of course, we have standard variation as a part of our line, which makes each piece one-of-a-kind.  Throwing variations and kiln character are a delightful part of the artistic process that makes each of our pieces unique.  Sometimes items vary a little beyond what we consider first quality, so we offer them at our Maxwell Street event as “seconds.”  We find some of our collectors enjoy this “imperfectly perfect” variation as much as we do and like to hunt for their preferences.

Each year we develop new patterns and forms and to make room for the new some old has to go, we have many carts this year of first quality pottery on markdown because they are being discontinued… from Christmas collectibles to holiday patterns, fall and more.

The early birds get the worm…. We have limited quantities of each piece on the carts, we love our product development pieces, you’ll find pieces that never went into production, special forms that we tweaked until we got them just the way we wanted them or trial glazes.  One of a kinds that you can’t buy anywhere else.

We can’t wait to fling the garage doors open and be part of your pottery adventure.  Plan to join us on August 4 and 5 at our Company Store, 110 East Main St. in Cambridge beginning at 9:00 AM Friday and 10:00 AM Saturday.  Maxwell Street specials are available in-person only (No online or call-in orders, please).

If you have questions about the event, feel free to give our Customer Service line a call at 608-423-3363.  For more seasonal inspiration ahead, follow us on Instagram and Facebook or explore our entire seasonal line on our website.