Photo: Southern Highland Craft Guild
Photo: Southern Highland Craft Guild
Photo: Southern Highland Craft Guild
Photo: Southern Highland Craft Guild

Basket

USA, 1900
<p>The handle of this basket consists of three coiled pieces of clay. The upright on the right slants inward and is taller than the one on the left. The coil that connects the uprights begins at the top of the left upright then slants downward until it meets the inside edge of the right upright. A small sculptural white and black bird with a big beak sits on the cross piece at the top of the left upright. It is looking down into the basket's blue interior. The sides of the short basket are pushed in . The head of a frog<span> sitting on two front feet is at the foot of the basket</span>. It's drawn with incised black lines. The eyes are in two crests at the top of the head. The nostrils are two crescents, the mouth is open and off the the right. The entire basket including the frog is light tan.</p><p>The underside is reddish brown with five lighter tan circles, four at the edge and one toward the middle.</p><p> </p>
Southern Highland Craft Guild Collection
Date acquired:
Materials:
Earthenware
Form - Functional: N/A
Form - Sculptural: N/A
Method: N/A
Surface Technique: N/A
Kiln Type: N/A
Glazes: N/A
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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Southern Highland Craft Guild Collection

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