Centerpiece Bowl
Russel Wright; Bauer Pottery Company

Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
The undulating lines of the wooden bowl shown here evoke a jellyfish in motion, or a leaf curling in the summer sun. Russel Wright experimented with these curving, biomorphic shapes in several media and clearly found them interesting in their own right. Although neither easy to make nor particularly suited to their purpose, these bowls were, however, wonderfully playful and suggestive of nature to the consumers he targeted.
Caption
Russel Wright (American, 1904–1976); Bauer Pottery Company. Centerpiece Bowl, ca. 1946. Earthenware, 4 1/2 x 14 in. (11.4 x 35.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Paul F. Walter, 1994.165.30. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Title
Centerpiece Bowl
Date
ca. 1946
Medium
Earthenware
Classification
Dimensions
4 1/2 x 14 in. (11.4 x 35.6 cm)
Signatures
not signed
Inscriptions
no inscriptions
Markings
on bottom, impressed: "(in script) Russel Wright/(block) BAUER"
Credit Line
Gift of Paul F. Walter
Accession Number
1994.165.30
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