Basket

USA, 1900
<p>The handle of this basket is made from two coils of clay rising from either side. They are attached to a wide rim.  When they overlap in the middle the one from the right is on the botton. <span>The legs are coils of clay bent to  form triangles. </span>A drawing of a creature's head is incised on the side of the basket. It has two rabbitt ears and one round ear. It has a broad closed mouth, a round eye, and a raised nose with one nostril showing. There are whisker like lines radiating out from the chin. The entire basket is various browns and tans.</p><p><span>The handle of this basket is made from two coils of clay rising from either side. They are attached to a wide white rim.  When they overlap in the middle the one from the left is on the botton. </span><span>The legs are coils of clay bent to form triangles. </span><span>A drawing of a wide cat's head fills this side.There are two ears, each with a dark areas in the middle. The eyes are human like with eye brows. Lines continue fromthe eye brows to create the nose, there are two black nostrils at the end of the lines. On each side below the nose there are three downward curving whiskers.  The very broad mouth is closed. <span>There are whisker like lines radiating out from the chin.</span></span></p><p><span><span>A top view shows the top handle of the over lapping coils that form the handle ends with a snake like head with an open mouth.  There are 3 black indentations on the snake's back. The cat image shows in this image as does the light grey interior.</span></span></p><p><span><span>The oval underside is black and brownish. The four legs show, three have a tan bottom, the other is black. </span></span></p><p><span><span> </span></span></p>
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Date acquired:
Materials:
Earthenware
Form - Functional: N/A
Form - Sculptural: N/A
Method:
Thrown and Altered
Hand-Built
Surface Technique: N/A
Kiln Type: N/A
Glazes:
Glaze
Ron Meyers

Ron Meyers has spent decades working with red earthenware. His thrown pots, always functional in some way, display his casual and spontaneous manner with clay. Each of Meyer?s pots is characterized by hand and finger marks left from throwing and altering the piece. He commonly pokes pieces, adding a wobbly unevenness to the forms.

His early passion to become a cartoonist is evident in his narrative, sometimes confrontational, colored slip surface paintings. His whimsical subjects range from animal forms to female nudes. Meyers fires his works first in an electric kiln and then in a gas kiln.

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