Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500
Auction: May 18, 2023 12:00 PM EDT
Glazed earthenware
Signed to underside: "Natzler"
Applied archive label to underside: "O523"
Provenance
Collection of Otto Natzler
Rago Auctions, Forces of Nature: Works from the Natzler Archive, Lambertville, New Jersey, May 13, 2022, Lot 446
Collection of Dr. Ellis F. Rubin and Suzanne Borow Rubin
Note
The plaster form and mold for the present lot were made in 1947, during a collaboration with Ms. C.M. Hoffman; those collaborative cast ceramics produced at the time were produced under the "California Ceramics Guild" name.
Literature
Suzanne Ramljak, Crafting a Legacy: Contemporary American Crafts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2002, p. 51 (for an illustration of a related glaze)