Frog and Fish with Bowl

USA, 1900
<p>This piece stands on a wide flat foot. Moving upward there is a straight sided column with a band of clay wrapped around it half way up. There is a sphere above the clay band, it is slightly wider than the colunm. The foot, column, and sphere are blotchy brown and tan. There is a tan frog with black spots sitting on the sphere. Its well defined back feet are seen on the sphere. It is sitting upright its mouth, eyes, and nose with nostrils  are in view. The frog has a large tan fish on its back that it is holding in place with its front feet. The fish is pointing to the left. The mouoth, an eye and gills show. The body has incised stripes that go from the top to the bottom of its body. There are incised stipes on the two part rounded tail. The fish has a small bowl with an outward turned rim on its back. The interior of the bowl is white.</p><p><span>This piece stands on a wide flat foot. Moving upward there is a straight sided column with a band of clay wrapped around it half way up. There is a round cat's head above the band. <span>The foot, column, and cat head are blotchy brown and tan. The cat's upward curving mouth is closed. There are whiskers between the mouth and the nostrils. The nose is created by lines that continue from the eye brows. The two ears have a black line in the middle. In this view the frog is seen from the side and the fish is facing right with the bowl on it's back.</span></span></p><p><span><span>A top view shows the iwhite nterior of the bowl with a wide rim. The head of the fish shows on the right, a bit of the tail on the left. Next is part of the cat's head then some column before the foot.</span></span></p><p><span><span>The underside shows the dark brown foot with 3 light tan circles. There is a small opening in the middle.The fish head, cat's ears, and part of the bowl can be seen in the background.</span></span></p>
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Date acquired:
Materials:
Earthenware
Form - Functional: N/A
Form - Sculptural: N/A
Method:
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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