Photo: TMP
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Platter

USA, 1990
<p>A platter with a black ground and details in grey and white. The drawings are cartoon like. A white cat with mouth, nose, and ears drawn in <span>black </span>comes in from the right its ears point inward to the center of the platter. The nose is created by black and orange lines that begin as the eyeborws. The mouth is two upward curving lines with many teeth showing.There is a black spiral between the ears. The spiral covers the right side of the forehead of a woman's face that comes in from the bottom left. Her features are drawn in black, the nose is a curved line that continues from the eye brow over the right eye. The upper lip is drawn with a wavy broad line. The black ground comes down onto the forehead in a V shape. There are incised orange lines that create the hair. There is another white and grey spiral in the black area below the heads. That area has many incised orange lines in random patterns. The black area above the heads has a white area, the cat's whiskerss are orange inscribed lines.</p><p>The side view of the platter in a plate stand.The platter rises gently the unglazed foot.There are incised lines the sircle the piece. </p>
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marer Collection, Scripps College
Date acquired:
Materials:
Earthenware
Form - Functional: N/A
Form - Sculptural: N/A
Method:
Thrown
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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Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marer Collection, Scripps College

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