Outstanding Ron Meyers Teapot

Fabulous piece from functional potter Ron Meyers. This earthenware teapot measures 11 inches from the base to the top of the handle and 7 3/4 inches long. It is adorned with Ron's distinctive mix of female form and wildlife painting and is in mint condition. Unsigned as is most of Ron's work. No cracks, chips, flakes, crazing or stains. No repairs. Vibrant glaze, very clean. $695

About the Artist

Ron Meyers has been working in clay for over 30 years. When he first became interested in clay, it was the utilitarian aspect that drew him. "I think you can stay within a utilitarian form and still have room to make plenty of statements. People always ask me whether I'm a potter or an artist. I just say that I make pots but try to make them in an artistic way." He describes his pottery as "utilitarian." His pottery is functional and useful. His surface design is confrontational. He throws on the wheel, then alters the shape to a less perfect form. His line is loose and rough. His pots seem on the verge of collapse, vessels that feel approachable, almost human, and always utilitarian. Drawing on the pots using slips, his images, with their wildly rendered, often humorous figures-both human and animal-feel spontaneous and whimsical. The images of fish, cats, goats, rabbits, and humans on the surface sometime seem frightened or agitated.

Ron Meyers has a Master's Degree in Art Education, Rochester Institute of Technology for American Craftsmen, and is a Professor emeritus at the University of Georgia. He has taught courses and workshops throughout the country. He has exhibited in many solo and group shows. He is an internationally know artist whose work is collected in the US and abroad.


Large Ron Meyers Covered Jar

Fabulous large piece from functional potter Ron Meyers. This earthenware Covered Jar Ron Meyers measures 13 and 1/2 inches tall and 7 and 1/2 inches wide at the base. It is adorned with Ron's distinctive mix of female form and wildlife painting and is in mint condition. Unsigned as is most of Ron's work. No cracks, chips, flakes, crazing or stains. No repairs. Vibrant glaze, very clean. $595


Spectacular Val Cushing Vessel

This outstanding Val Cushing vessel measures 4 and 3/4 inches tall and 5 and 7/8 inches wide at the top opening. It has textured incised decoration and is glazed in vibrant blue and purple. It is signed Val Cushing 2005 on the bottom and is in mint condition. No cracks, chips, flakes, crazing or stains. No repairs. Vibrant glaze, very clean. $500

About the Artist

Val Cushing is a functional potter, a firm adherent of the wheelthrown, utilitarian vessel. Unlike many of his peers, he has not rejected function in favor of more purely sculptural concerns. He has deliberately chosen to work within the limitations imposed by such conventional formats as bowls, pitchers, casseroles, and storage jars. Respecting function and the traditional materials and processes of ceramic art, he has created a body of work that is artistically fresh and adventurous. an invigorating infusion of the visual and the tactile.
 
Cushing was born in Rochester, New York, and received his BFA and MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He has taught pottery at Alfred since 1957 and, in 1962, was a founding member of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. His work has been exhibited widely in the United States and he has been the recipient of a Fulbright grant and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Examples of his work can be found in in over 40 museums worldwide including the Smithsonian, Renwick Gallery and the Everson museum of Ceramics.


Edwin & Mary Scheier Abstract Studio Pottery

This heavy stunning piece measures 8 inches in diameter with a shallow indent in the center. It has abstract male and female faces in the center on a green glazed background, and is incised Scheier on the back. There are 4 glaze flakes on the rim of the piece, 3 of which are shown in the last picture. No other issues. No use wear or scratching. $495 LAYAWAY Paid to date $70


Abstract Byron Temple Plate

This one of a kind Byron Temple studio piece measures 8 and 3/4 inches in diameter. It has textured incised decoration and is glazed in spruce green colors. It is Stamped with Byron Temple's initials and cypher on the bottom and is in mint condition. No cracks, chips, flakes, crazing or stains. No repairs. Very clean. $350

About the Artist

Byron Temple is a major proponent of functional pottery, and internationally recognized for his unpretentious wood-fired and salt-glazed pottery. Raised on a farm in Centerville, Indiana, Temple studied pottery at Ball State University. He later studied under Kenneth Quick who had worked with Bernard Leach in England, and Byron was inspired by Ken to continue his studies at Leach's Studio at St. Ives from 1959 to 1962. A period of working with Colin Pearson at the Quay Pottery in Aylesford followed.

Byron returned to the United States and set up his own pottery in Lambertville, New Jersey, where he produced a range of reduction-fired standard tableware. In the late 80's Byron abandoned large-scale production of tableware in favor of making more individual pots. Byron moved his studio to Louisville, Kentucky in 1989. He passed away April 14, 2002.


Abstract Design Marc Hansen Vase

Large impressive mid century studio piece measuring 17 inches tall and 11 inches in diameter. Signed "MH 55" on the bottom along with a paper sticker that reads "Marc Hansen". this vase is in mint condition. No cracks, chips, flakes, crazing or stains. No repairs. Very clean. $1950

About the Artist

Marc Hansen exhibited at the Syracuse Ceramic Nationals 1950s-1960s. Hansen's work appears in "Ceramics: A Potter's Handbook" by Glenn C. Nelson, (2nd, 3rd 4th and 5th eds.; Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers 1950s-1990s). Exhibited at The Art Insititue of Chicago: "Ceramics by Marc Hansen, Earl Hooks, and Tomiya Matsuda" Mar.18-May 14, 1967


Toshiko Takaezu Small Ceramic Plate

This small plate is characteristic of Takaezu's abstract landscapes and measures 5/34 inches in diameter. It has Takaezu's incised Cypher on bottom. Condition: overall light crazing and a small pottery overlap on the rim. $195


Vivika & Otto Heino Covered Vessel
  
This outstanding one of a kind Vivika & Otto Heino bird head covered vessel measures a huge 13 inches in diameter from beak to tail, and is over 4 inches tall. Circa 1960s. It is signed Vivika & Otto on the bottom, and has their studio cypher on the top of the lid near the tail. $2000


About the Artists

Otto Heino is a true working craftsman, his life and work shaped by the post-World-War II studio craft movement. Throughout his career, he remained true to his vision of pursuing excellence in the art of clay as a potter and sharing his productivity with others. During the 1940's He studied in England at Bernard Leach's studio, one of the avant gard ceramists of the time. He later met Vivika, his wife of 47 years, when a student of hers in New York. Otto has a very natural, physical throwing style. He is one of very few potters who can keep a refined shape in a large vessel.
 
Vivika Heino studied under Glen Lukens at University of Southern California and received her MFA at New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred, New York. Vivika's work had a more delicate aspect in porcelain and stoneware than Otto, but her greatest gifts were the glazes she developed. Together, Otto and Vivika participated in over 200 national and international exhibits, and were awarded many distinctions and recognitions. In 1978, Vivika was appointed to the Apprentice Fellowship Advisory Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1991, Vivika was honored as Trustee Emeritus for the American Crafts Council in New York. Vivika and Otto, originally from the east coast, eventually settled in Ojai, California in a house formerly owned by Beatrice Wood.


Otto Heino Blue & White Textured Vessel
  
This Otto Heino textured vessel measures 6 inches wide and 4 and 1/2 inches tall. It is signed Otto 03 on the bottom and is in mint condition. No cracks, chips, flakes, crazing or stains. No repairs. Nice glaze, very clean. $650



Otto Heino Tall Textured Vase
  
This Otto Heino textured vase measures 8 inches tall and 4 inches wide at the top opening. It is signed Otto 02 on the bottom and is in mint condition. No cracks, chips, flakes, crazing or stains. No repairs. Nice glaze, very clean. $500


Early Harding Black Vessel

This very heavy vessel has brown and cream mottled drip glaze. It has the thick walls that are so characteristic of Harding's early work. This piece measures 4 and 1/2 inches tall and 6 and 3/8 inches wide at the top opening. It is incised "Harding Black 1954" on the bottom along with incised number 4963 as shown in the pictures. The numbers may indicate an experimental glaze. This vessel is in excellent condition and appears unused. There are no cracks, chips, or flakes. Nice glaze, very clean. No glaze misses.$600

About the Artist

Harding Black (1912 - 2004). Resided and worked in San Antonio Texas as a self taught potter for over 60 years. In 1932 he joined the Witte Museum Archaeological Society which provided him with access to their collections of Native American pottery. Harding became fascinated by these polychromed vessels and he began attempting to create hand built pots. In 1933 he was given a position as ceramic instructor at Witte, with the responsibility to establish a ceramics department. The first kiln Harding built utilized plans he obtained from Newcomb College. He scrounged parts from a junkyard which were used in its construction. This project was not totally successful because of problems reaching required firing temperatures. As usual this did not deter Harding. He seemed to have a wonderful ability to learn from failure and move on.

In the early 1940's Harding began working with formulas for copper red glazes prepared by Arthur Baggs and Edgar Littlefield. This work only added to his interest in Oriental pottery and fostered a desire to rework many old glazes. Influenced by "A Potters Book" published in 1940 by Bernard Leach, Harding began to incorporate form, function and surface treatment into a single entity where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

In the 1950's Harding left Witte and built his own studio where he spent the rest of his life creating his wonderful art and occasionally taking time off to do a bit if fishing.


Early Harding Black Free Form Vessel

This rare, very heavy freeform vessel has a bubbly ox blood red and black interior and a natural unglazed exterior. It has the thick walls that are so characteristic of Hardings early work. This piece measures a large 9 inches long, 8 inches wide at the widest point, and 2 and 3/8 inches tall. It is incised "Harding Black 1953" on the bottom as shown in the pictures. It is in excellent condition. No cracks, chips, or flakes. Nice glaze, very clean. No glaze misses. Extremely light crazing in the center if held to a bare light bulb. $1,250


Heavy Early Harding Black Ashtray

This very heavy ashtray has shiny raindrop red and blue interior glaze and a textured matte glaze exterior. It has very thick walls that are so characteristic of Harding's early work. This piece measures 7 and 3/4 inches wide and 2 and 1/4 inches tall. It is incised "Harding Black 1956" on the bottom as shown in the pictures. This ashtray is in excellent condition and appears unused. There are no cracks, chips, or flakes. Nice glaze, very clean. No glaze misses. $400


Exceptional Clyde Burt Studio Pottery Vase.

This outstanding Clyde Burt vase measures 6 and 1/2 inches tall and 6 and 1/4 inches wide at the widest point. It is is glazed in a brown glaze with an abstract black pattern. This vase is incised with Burt's mark; CB in a circle, on the bottom. It is in mint condition, no chips, cracks, flakes, hairlines, wear, stains or crazing. $1,200

About the Artist

Clyde Burt (Born: 1922, Melrose, Ohio.. Died: 1981) Also Known as: Clyde E. Burt. He studied at the Fort Wayne Art School, Cape Cod School of Art and did graduate work at The Cranbrook Academy of Art, under Maija Grotell. He taught at the Dayton Art Institute and the Fort Wayne School of Art. He worked in partnership with John Nartker as Burt & Natker Designers in Clay (circa 1961). They marketed work primarily in Michigan and the Chicago areas. Exhibitions were held at the McCormick Exposition Center in Chicago, as well as at the Madison Gallery in New York City. Burt's work is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Chicago Museum of Art. Exhibited at the Ceramic Nationals from 1954-1958.


Spectacular 14.5" Scheier Green Spiral Vessel

This spectacular Scheier vessel measures 14 and 1/2 inches wide and 2 inches deep. It has a tan and green speckled background with a large mint green spiral design in the center. It is incised Sheier on the back and is in mint condition. No cracks, chips, flakes, crazing or stains. No repairs. Vibrant glaze, very clean. SOLD

About the Artists

Ed & mary Scheier are one of America's greatest artist-couples of the 20th century. Supported by the federal Works Progress Administration, the Scheiers started out as artists in the rural south. After meeting in 1937, they became traveling puppeteers, but soon found a better way to earn a living -- making pottery. Turning an old log cabin in Glade Spring, Virginia, into a pottery studio, the Scheiers taught themselves how to find clay, throw pots and fire glazed ceramic pieces. As teachers at the University of New Hampshire the couple became celebrated, winning national awards year after year. In 1968 Ed and Mary retired from pottery, moving to Oaxaca, Mexico to work in media inspired by indigenous craft traditions -- weavings and wood sculpture. The Scheiers moved back to the U.S. ten years later, settling in Arizona, where Ed returned to the potter's wheel to produce some of his greatest works. Today their work is coveted by major collectors around the country and the world, and is represented in numerous museums.


Harris Strong Cubist Tiles

This outstanding set of large Mid-Century cubist tiles is one of the most coveted sets of tiles made by Harris Strong. The pair consists of a male figure 23 and 3/4 inches tall and 12 inches wide, and a female figure 17 and 3/4 inches tall and 12 inches wide. Circa 1960s. The tiles have vibrant boldly colored glazes separated by thick, textured volcanic black glaze lines. Both tile figures are mounted on plywood backs and are in excellent original condition. The backs of each tile bear Strong's stock codes of P-30 and P-31, his distinctive hangers and the remnants of early yellow paper stickers commonly used by Strong in the early 1960's. There are a few tiny glaze flakes along the edge of the male figure. $1595 for the Pair

About the Artist

Harris Strong (1920-1986 Wisconsin) Known internationally for his decorative art, most notably ceramic tiles. He was influenced to pursue studies in art by his aunt, Henrietta Brownie Strong, who owned a greeting card business. He studied chemical engineering at North Carolina State University learning about the chemistry of glazes, and studied ceramic art at New York University. He formed a company called the Potters of Wall Street with Robert Krasner, a designer Strong had met while working as an engineer at Kelby Pottery in Brooklyn. Later, Strong opened Harris G. Strong Inc., which was tremendously successful, perhaps because of Strong’s marriage of art and engineering. At the height of its success, the company had showrooms in New York, Chicago and Tokyo as well as distribution centers in Canada and the Caribbean. In 1961 Strong, with Donald Deskey received the International Design Award from the American Institute of Decorators for a 30-foot-long freestanding ceramic wall in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.



Tall Claude Conover Ewer

This is hard to find example of mid-century studio pottery by Cleveland artist Claude Conover. It is a rough hewned ewer in a brown earthenware clay with an etched texture throughout that gives it a primitive look. The interior is a higher glaze greenish-white color. It is incised Claude Conover on the bottom. This ewer measures 13 and 1/4 inches tall, 3 inches wide at the base, and 5 inches wide at the top. It is in excellent condition. There is a superfical shallow short firing crack on the bottom under the back stamp, as is common with Conover's work. No post production cracks, chips, flakes, crazing or stains. No repairs. Very clean. $1500

About the Artist

Claude Conover, (b 1907 d 1993). Conover worked for 30 years as a commercial designer before turning to ceramics. By the 1960s he was devoting himself full time to his pots. He exhibited in 14 May Shows; all told his work was shown in 47 exhibitions at museums and arts centers around the country, some traveling internationally. Many regional patrons have made these hand-built stoneware pots -most off-white-some rough, some smooth, part of their home environment.


David Stabely Covered Jar

Covered jar by Pennsylvania artist David Stabley. This is an earlier example of his work, dated 1986. It measures 5 and 1/8 inches wide, and 3 and 1/4 inches tall to the top of the domed lid. It is incised "Stabely 86" on the bottom. There are a few pinprick rough spots around the rim of the base of the jar, which may have occurred in the making; otherwise no cracks, chips, crazing or stains. No repairs. Very clean. $250

About the Artist

David Stabely, (b 1956) Stabley holds an MFA from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1984, and a BA Millersville University, Millersville, Pa. 1980. David is a clay artist whose pop art pieces are exciting combinations of unique sculptural ceramic forms and colorful, non-traditional approaches to the clay surface. David uses shape, surface, texture, and color to tell stories on clay. Originally trained as a printmaker, David uses the clay surface as his canvas on which he draws, paints, and carves. He has received numerous awards and his work is shown in over 60 galleries nationwide.