Vase
Edwin Scheier
Decorative Arts and Design
On View: American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, Surface Tension
MEDIUM
Glazed earthenware
DATES
ca. 1966
DIMENSIONS
20 1/8 × 7 × 7 in. (51.1 × 17.8 × 17.8 cm)
mount: 20 1/4 × 9 × 8 in. (51.4 × 22.9 × 20.3 cm)
(show scale)
MARKINGS
Incised inside foot: "Scheier '66"
SIGNATURE
no signature
INSCRIPTIONS
no inscriptions
ACCESSION NUMBER
67.76.4
CREDIT LINE
H. Randolph Lever Fund
PROVENANCE
June 7, 1967, purchased from the artist and Mary Scheier by the Brooklyn Museum.
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CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Vase, tall earthenware vase with black, blue and iridescent crackled surface. General cylindrical shape that bulges out in center and is smaller in diameter at foot. Around center, simplified profiles in relief with under-glazed areas very light in color. Center indentations contain the representation of three figures.
Condition: good
CAPTION
Edwin Scheier (American, 1910–2008). Vase, ca. 1966. Glazed earthenware, 20 1/8 × 7 × 7 in. (51.1 × 17.8 × 17.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, H. Randolph Lever Fund, 67.76.4. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 67.76.4_overall01_PS22.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 67.76.4_overall01_PS22.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2024
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What glazes did Sheier use?
Edwin and Mary Scheier created custom glazes for their pottery, and they might layer more than one glaze on a single piece; however, we are having trouble locating what those glazes were made of. Their use of glaze was often minimal and they would purposefully allow the texture of the clay beneath to show through.
What do the three faces represent?
I am not sure that the three faces represent anything necessarily but we do know that much of Edwin and Mary Scheier's work (they were married and both created pottery) showed people-within-people or figures in womb-like shapes. They often use symbols of birth and the cycles of life in their art. They were also inspired by Chinese art, I don't know enough about Chinese art and motifs to say for sure, but possibly this was something that comes out of that inspiration. And here's an interesting fact: they first worked together as puppeteers, before they began collaborating on pottery!
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