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"In Pieces but Still Holding It Together." By Bouke de Vries (2020).

Melanie Ferguson Their Eyes Grew Round Like Moons, 2015 Hand built stoneware, flashing slip, oxide stains, Pier Black liner, soda fired in heavy reduction 13 x 16 x 10 inches 33 x 40.6 x 25.4 cm MFe 30

Ceramics by saraelynch on Etsy

Be sure to check out our new exhibit, Asian Ceramics in the Walters’ Collection, curated by Kathy Cowan!

Decker Library is fortunate to have a complete set (10 volumes) of the 1897 publication Oriental Ceramic Art by W.T. Walters, Stephen W. Bushell, and William M. Laffan (NK4165 .B77 1897 SECTIONS 1-10 CAGE) featuring the extensive asian ceramic collection of W.T. Walters, whose collection later became The Walters’ Art Museum.

“The images were fascinating: intensely realistic renderings of elaborate, gorgeous objects, floating (in many cases) on a featureless ground. When I noticed that many of the images included reflections of the landscape outside the room in which the paintings were made, it made them even more enjoyable. I later learned that the images were chromolithographs made by the Prang Company, from watercolors made by artists including James Callowhill who worked in a room of the Walters Mansion at 5 West Mount Vernon Place, so the reflections on the shiny surfaces of the objects were mini-cityscapes of 1889 Baltimore.”

Angel Oloshove

Mother Magma

Ceramic

2015

Now on view at the Menil Collection Bookstore

Jar, “Relics of Giants”