Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP

Vase

USA, 1900
<p>The straight sides of this vase rise from a unglazed earthenware foot. The sides slightly slant inward until the shoulder were they have a more severe inward slant until they reach a black collar and black area created when they flare outward to the rim. A white animal head begins at the foot ending with two long white ears that reach nearly to the rim. The ears have a black line down the middle. The eyes are yellow with black pupils. The rectangular nose ends with an oval dark brown snout with two white nostrils. The open mouth with long teeth is off to the left. There are many whiskers above the mouth. The background is mottled orange, yellow, tan, grey, and white.</p><p><span>The straight sides of this vase rise from a unglazed earthenware foot. The sides slightly slant inward until the shoulder were they have a more severe slant until they reach a black collar and black area created when they flare outward to the rim.  A blotchy pink and white animal fills this whole side of the vase. Its ears bend downward. The eyes are brown with black pupils. There is a very bright red snout with two large black nostrils. <span>The open mouth with many teeth is off to the left. There are short black lines placed at random on the cheeks. There are black eye brows and black hair like lines between the ears on the top of the head. <span>The background is mottled orange, yellow, tan, grey, and white.</span></span></span></p><p> </p>
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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