Mid-Century Studio Pottery Plate with Abstracted Nude in Landscape silver handware 1 5/16 x 1 7/16

1 5/16 x 1 7/16 x 3/4"

it feels as if it contains the wisdom of the universe in the spiral of its shell

Some aging to the celluloid

just an honestly made thing

Mid-Century Studio Pottery Plate with Abstracted Nude in Landscape silver handware 1 5/16 x 1 7/16I LOVE the figure on the face of this plate, strangely and evocatively elongated like a late day shadow, and with these two wonderfully trailing inky black lines lending just a bit of definition and also tension. It makes me think of everything from the paintings of Albert Pinkham Ryder to those of de Chirico to the work of Ana Mendieta to the early 20th century photographs of Anne Brigman (look her up!), and Arts & Crafts era craft, too, and I've