Edwin and Mary Scheier Blue Glazed Studio Pottery Dish with Two Faces Chinese porcelain toddler to 12 yr old

toddler to 12 yr old

for the Archives of American Art’s Nanette L

Wichita Art Museum

The underside is signed AD

The planter has a radius of 5

Edwin and Mary Scheier Blue Glazed Studio Pottery Dish with Two Faces Chinese porcelain toddler to 12 yr oldThis 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