Platter with Five Fish

USA, 1985
<p>A platter with a stack of five light brown fish with cartoon like features and outline drawn in dark brown. The fish are on a light green ground that has a net like grid in black. The fat rim of the platter has chevrons incised under a black glaze.</p><p><span>A close up of the stack shows the bottom fish looks left and has lines that run the length of the body that curves to fit the platter. The fish are then stacked so they are alternate facing left and right. The second and fourth fish face right and are upside down. The second fish which faces right has drawn scales. The third fish faces left and has brown circles on its body. The fourth fish looks right has squiggles from the top to bottom of its body. The fifth, top fish faces left and has the letter v  with the point facing the head on its body. All the fish have pointly teeth.</span></p><p><span>The underside is unglazed earthenware. There is a raised foot with 10 felt circles. There is a shallow spiral carved into the clay inside the ring of the foot.</span></p>
E. John Bullard Collection
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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E. John Bullard Collection

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