Edwin and Mary Scheier Blue Glazed Studio Pottery Dish with Two Faces three-drawer cabinet This heavy plate with a

This heavy plate with a beautiful aqua green glaze and incised design of three whales circling around a triple spiral at its center was made in a limited edition by the United States Quarry Tile Company in conjunction with the Romany Spartan Ceramics Company in the 1950's

created more than a hundred years prior (in 1898

The lid is attached with hinges and opens with ease

I’m so intrigued by this tiny clay figure on horseback

Edwin and Mary Scheier Blue Glazed Studio Pottery Dish with Two Faces three-drawer cabinet This heavy plate with aThis hand thrown small plate dish was created by Mary and Edwin Scheier, a fascinating couple at the vanguard of American studio pottery. Largely self taught and consummately curious, the two met working on a WPA project in Virginia, travelled the country for a period as itinerant puppeteers, worked, studied and started making pottery together in East Tennesee, taught for many years in New Hampshire, and later lived in Oaxaca, studying Oaxacan craft