Frog Jar

USA, 2017
<p>A cylindrical jar with an unglazed earthenware foot.Most of the jar is blotchy yellow and green. There is a black fish pointing to the left. It is defined with white lines.  An arch of the base colors above the fish  continues into a black band the runs around the jar below the lid.  A large tan frog with a round head sits on the green ground of the lid. The frog has prominent catlike ears. The wide .downward turned mouth shows a row of teeth. There are two black indents for eyes. <span>The front legs end with defined fingers that cling to the side of the lid</span></p>
E. John Bullard Collection
Date acquired:
Materials:
Earthenware
Form - Functional:
Covered Jar
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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E. John Bullard Collection

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