Quilt, “Spiderweb Star” pattern

Elmer Wood

About 1940

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Futura vase, Model 393-12” or “Four Ball Vase.” Geometrically designed slender vase with brown and green glaze; rests on a simple, square-shaped base; the body composed of four sides to create a square-shaped rim. A round form extends from the bottom of each side, where the body meets the base. Linear color designs in the form of triangles emphasize the form’s verticality and geometric nature.
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Large face jug of red stoneware covered with a beige wood ash glaze that is streaked through with shades of gray, brown, red, white and black, the body bulbous and decorated with a series of six faces around it, with each eye part of one face as well as part of the one next to it, with six noses and six pairs of thick lips, the teeth formed of small stoneware shards, the faces' eyebrows form the shoulder of the jug, which has a long neck and three loop handles, the interior likewise glazed.