Elizabeth Hazel Lissaman (11 October 1901 – 18 February 1991) was a New Zealand studio potter. Lissaman was born in Blenheim and grew up on her family's sheep station, Waireka, near Seddon. In 1969, Lissaman published ''Pottery for Pleasure in Australia and New Zealand'', a book designed to support potters working with Australasian clays. Lissaman was appointed an

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, for services to pottery, in the 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours. Her work is held in several public collections, including the

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and the

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. Lissaman died in Cambridge in 1991.

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