A ceramic artist from Taiwan, China living in Stevens, Pennsylvania in Amish country, Cliff Lee is known for his intricate, detailed carving of porcelain vessels, many of them in teardrop shapes and with lotus flowers, dragons and other motifs reflecting his Chinese heritage. His specialty in glazes is celadon, oxblood and imperial yellows.

He came to the United States at age fifteen and took his early training in neurosurgery at Hershey Medical School in Hershey, Pennsylvania. In 1976, when he was twenty-five, he enrolled in a ceramics class in Harrisburg, Virginia at James Madison University. "There he encountered the two loves of his life---studio pottery and his wife, jewelry designer Holly Dobring...