Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP

Cup

USA, 1900
<p>This short drinking vessel has a narrow foot with a incised line parallel to the bottom. The foot is unglazed black clay as is the area where the foot expands to form the vessel. The walls are pushed in a third of the way up. The brown and white surface is very busy with mostly random decoration that covers all of it. There are brown triangles with white shapes floating in them. Each of these triangles is surrounded by a white area creating a larger triangle. Six of the triangles are connected corner to corner creating a hexagon.  In the center of the hexagon several white lines cross, there are curved white shapes like the letter C where each of the triangles connect. The entire brown ground is covered with more triangles and the white C shapes. The lip is unglazed black clay.</p><p>The <span>underside shows the </span>black unglazed carefully finished foot and area that creates the base of the vessel.</p>
June Sakata Collection
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Method:
Thrown
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Forrest Lesch Middleton
June Sakata Collection

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