crafts and decorative art

n.d.

Raku fired stoneware sculpture. Sculpture has a green base with holes on one side and a red cylinder on the other. Three metal colored 'dowels' go through the green base, one extending up and...

1970s

Large stoneware plate with salt glaze in brown and green. Plate has round base with flared off center sides and two rectangles for handles. Squares or rectangles are pressed into the interior of...

1994

Porcelain bowl with black and copper red glaze. Bowl is black at the bottom and the copper red at top with a blue serpentine line where the two colors meet on the inside.

1920-1933

Pair of green Rookwood bookends. Bookends shaped like open books with a vine of flowers growing over the open pages. A bird (crow? raven?) sits on the open pages spanning one corner to the other...

1920-1933

Rose colored ceramic vase. Vase is narrow at bottom and bulbous at top tapering into a wide round opening with a very small rim. Design motif consists of six vertical strips topped by three...

1988

Sculpture of a tall vase constructed from an assemblage of broken plates. The ceramic plates are white with many showing floral or animal patterns and are held together with hot-melt adhesive....

n.d.

Earthenware cup that is wheel thrown and hand built. Cup has a notch cut out extending from handle almost through to opposite side. Handle is shaped like the top of a question mark and rests on...

1968

Glass etching of a cup that looks very much like 2007.39.76. Cup image is in lower half of glass; top section is clear. Glass sets against cream colored mat board and is inside a black painted...

1962

Porcelain cup or bowl. Light gray/white with blue, terra cotta and green near base.

1975

Cup sculpture made of slip cast earthenware clay with low-fire glaze and china paint. 'Cup' has a brown base, a green body and a pink jelly bean-shaped handle. It is mounted to wooden box base...

n.d.

Pit fired earthenware bowl. Bowl has a round base and tapers up with horizontally ribbed sides. Corners have been pressed out from the inside to form corners, creating a squared rim. Coloring...

1970-11/21/75

Porcelain sculpture (A) with china paint. Sculpture is brown in color and has a five sided star shaped base that narrows as it comes up to meet a round shape with a 7" rectangle projecting from...

1976

Hand built earthenware bowl made of pigmented clay. Bowl has round flat bottom with high vertical sides and a flat rim at top. Rim is decorated with six pieces of recessed colored clay....

c. 1965-1966

This is an eight-sided glazed porcelain jar (A) with a round tablet-shaped lid (B). A partial butterfly motif in gray appears at center right on each side of the jar.

1973

White clay ceramic sculpture (A) that includes a large white cup and saucer, a pillow and an arch, all sitting atop a white ceramic dome base. Cup has a green band near top and arch is green on...

n.d.

Rectangular porcelain vase with a long neck. Background has a sponge-looking texture with a green on gold finish. Encircling the center horizontally is a puzzle-like motif depicting ocean, sky...

c. 1965

Stoneware hollow brick shaped sculpture with a cutout and drawn in face on the front. Front and back are bulbous while sides are flat. Top corners have holes through which a wire goes through...

c. 1965

Earthenware teapot with lid. Beneath clear glaze, pot is painted with a desert road scene. On one side (spout to left) is a black asphalt road in center, a cactus to the right and a billboard to...

n.d.

White earthenware plate with clear glaze. Center has a gray image of a man's face and hands juggling food and a brush. Man is wearing a baseball cap and is licking his lips. Beneath his image...

1960

Wheel thrown earthenware vase. Vase has a classic form with a round bottom, a wide flared neck and two small handles at base of neck. Vase is brown and is decorated with blue glaze forming...

1978

Hand built stoneware vase or vessel. Bottom has oblong shape with pointed ends (like an eye). Two sides meet at corners and flare up and out, forming an upside down triangle. Corners are seamed...

1999

Porcelain sculpture. Sculpture is a vessel (A) in the shape of a drum or can with a horizontal spout extending out the top at one end and a cylindrical opening on top opposite it. Opening has a...

c.1960

Large stoneware vase thrown by P. Voulkos. Round bottom with wire wrapped around it. Sides of vase are sculpted into abstract but life-size faces. Light gray clay with gray and red glaze.

1979

Stoneware round plate made of brown clay. Flat clay pieces with curled edges have been added to the top and glazed in purple and green, forming an abstract textured design.

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