Edwin and Mary Scheier Elegant Pair of Footed Pale Blue Bowls, c. 1950s carved wood column closing in 1989

closing in 1989

with each link in the chain slightly wider than the previous until terminating in a looped piece attached by what seem to me to be wooden pegs to a wooden end

and on her own (if stood in a stable position) and what a lot of time and care and skill went into making her

Chas Lyons: 5 5/8” x 3”

I love how simple and direct it is

Edwin and Mary Scheier Elegant Pair of Footed Pale Blue Bowls, c. 1950s carved wood column closing in 1989If in need of a dose of serene beauty (as I think many of us are ) I'd take these two, along with the other Scheier bowl and the Makah basket I've listed today, line them up in a row on a shelf, and take a deep breath. Very lovely, and calming, like earth and sky at once. Because of their several decades spent teaching at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, pieces by widely renowned and influential ceramicists Edwin and Mary Scheier pop up more