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Elizabeth Hazel Lissaman OBE (11 October 1901 – 18 February 1991) was a New Zealand studio potter.[1]

Elizabeth Lissaman OBE
Born	Elizabeth Hazel Lissaman (1901-10-01)1 October 1901 Blenheim, New Zealand
Died	18 February 1991(1991-02-18) (aged 89) Cambridge, New Zealand
Known for	Ceramics

Lissaman was born in Blenheim and grew up on her family's sheep station, Waireka, near Seddon.[2]

In 1969, Lissaman published Pottery for Pleasure in Australia and New Zealand, a book designed to support potters working with Australasian clays.[3]

Lissaman was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to pottery, in the 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours.[4] Her work is held in several public collections, including the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and the Sarjeant Gallery.[5][6]

Lissaman died in Cambridge in 1991.[1]

Publications

• Lissaman, Elizabeth (1977). Pottery for pleasure in Australia and New Zealand. Sydney: Reed. ISBN 9780589002978.

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