Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP

Bowl with Crow

USA, 1900
<p>A lalrge shallow bowl with sides that have been gently manipulated to make its rim a bit wavy. The rim is black with short white incised lines going in the direction of in and out of the bowl. A <span>drawing of a crow covers most of t</span>he flat bottom. It has an orange eye surrounded by white and a very long curved slightly open beak. There are white incised lines that suggest feathers, there are also black lines from the head onto the red background of this area of the bowl. The area below the head and beak is yellow. There are two black dots in this area. The interior walls are washes of tan and brown. Thee are four whisps of brown on the wall above the head, as well as <span style="letter-spacing: 0.03em;">black dots, two above the head and two where the crow enters the bottom.</span></p><p>The underside shows a large unglazed area that travels half way up the side. The upper half of the side has washes of tan and brown. On the left is a circular sticker with unreadable writing.</p>
Date acquired:
Materials:
Earthenware
Form - Functional: N/A
Form - Sculptural: N/A
Method:
Thrown and Altered
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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