The artists Megardish Karakashian and Nishan Balian, who left Ohannessian's workshop in 1922, founded a workshop together called "Palestine Pottery," where they developed a line of design with figurative images that were alien to traditional Turkish ceramic art (with the exception of Kütahya's own figurative tradition, as practiced by its Armenian ceramicists).. For example, the two of them combined designs from ancient mosaics discovered in the Land of Israel, such as the "Birds Mosaic" (Jerusalem) or the mosaic from Hisham's Palace in Jericho. Often these images were imbued with Christian theological interpretations.See: Nurith Kenaan-Kedar, The Armenian Ceramics of Jerusalem (Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 2002), 53-91. [in Hebrew] The joint workshop functioned continually until 1964, when Stefan KarakashianGabriel Stern, "Beit Hayotzer at Netiv Hayisurim," Al Hamishmar, (18 August 1967). [in Hebrew] and Marie Balian, heirs of the founders, founded two separate workshops that made use of images from the past as well as new images that they created.
