Iridescent Gold Coil Built Pottery Vase with Many Faces 1940s photograph color cubes

color cubes

with wonderfully irregular notched bentwood handles

Interior is in original unpainted state

who pulled it out of an old Maine estate

Iridescent Gold Coil Built Pottery Vase with Many Faces 1940s photograph color cubesSometimes I fall in love with things immediately, and other times it takes me a little while to realize their greatness, which is the case with this funny coil formed, iridescent gold painted pottery vase initialed DS and dated 2007, which I found in Maine this week. What I realized through the process of photographing it is how much it seems to reference folk art traditions, from memory jars to face jugs to seashell encrusted creations, making its