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Showing posts with label clay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clay. Show all posts

Friday, November 4, 2022

Autumn



I would give one of my ceramic pieces to Michelle Obama. And feel like I’ve left it in a safe place. For posterity. Or a few pieces from my collections. I’m sure she has her own amazing treasures but I have to try. Maybe she would like my tiles entitled, burnt offerings terracotta. Another burnt Offerings are in a corporate collection of a tile company and was in The Monarch Tile Ceramic Competition. It was Monarch who bought it. The clay was stoneware. These are hand made tiles burnished and fired in a sawdust fire and assembled to show the smoke gray moving through the piece. This piece is worth 12,000.00. 



 

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Collections


An angel from my Mexican folk art collection


A beautiful bowl (& gift) is made by my friend Martha ( and ceramics instructor in college).
I have more of her work. Presently she is doing fused glass a lot, and teaches at Normandale Community college in Minnesota.

Below, the b&w plate is more Mexican folk art, shown with two seashells.
The long white one in front is carried in Japanese wedding bouquets. 
Two shrimp are trapped in these for life.
hmmmm....
It's amazing, as most seashells are.



One stunning Scandinavian goblet, and a beer horn from Iittala.
 I also collect some Iittala items.
And it's my year, the year of the ox.
Another Mexican folk art plate. (green) 
It's not clay.


The book in back was my Mother's, Flash Gordon. 
My family had many of these books, but I don't know where they are.
The little clay house is by and from a friend , Marylou, from college.
She is a linguist for the NSA.
Potpourri is in an Iittala vase here, and is primarily tulips petals, and roses.
Two vases are ancient.
 And....... the painting is from Argentina, (from an old BF who traveled there).
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Sunday, December 28, 2008

More Treasures, folk art, ceramic art, masks and more





This Pitcher by Richard Wilhelmi  was a graduation gift long ago.
 It's a large thrown vase with beautiful workmanship.
I use it when I make gazpacho.


This xylophone is pentatonic, kids love it.
The baskets , on right from a trip to Mexico, lovely basketry.
The one on the left was an easter basket one year, it makes a good sewing basket.


These masks are from Guerrero MX, where masks are famous. 
This artists was doing something very different, in black and white. 
The scenes are of farmers in the fields, and swimming.


This is a bear print by a Seattle artist.
The frame was more than the print that I found at a junk store for 35.00.


These gold shoes are from the roaring 20's. They're a 6 1/2 narrow, from Philadelphia.
The box was decorated by Daisy for me fro Christmas one year, Kim helped her. 
It's filled with fun wind up toys.

The drawing above of the teapot/ cozy is from a Canadian artist.
The bowl is Robin Hopper's work, Canada also, well known potter.
One the left in white with black and gold is an old piece of mine, a vase.



A close up of that drawing, it's amazing. I want that tea cozy!


The Shakatchie flute was a gift when I was in Japan. (Northern Honshu)
It was a delightful gift.
The dog is Mexican Fold art.


Goblets, very tall, and well made. I wish I had made them.
The art behind them is mine tho.
The bowl above is a Canadian potter, a woman.


This black gourd is mine, it's about 14" tall, clay.
The woodcut is mine as well.
The purple creature in Mexican Folk art.


The tiles in relief are mine, the black bowl, Mexican, and the mask,
 I wish I would discover was an early Wiinblad.


The lily plate and bowl are form Mexico, and the vessel is mine.


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