Industrial Vintage Wooden Mold blue and white This large mid-century studio pottery

This large mid-century studio pottery platter with fish design would make for a bold and super stylish means of serving a whole fish

is perfectly emblematic of their work with its intersecting faces

On the underside of this charming carved wooden bird's base is written the following: "1974 / Jamaica W

this is really a beautiful little piece

Industrial Vintage Wooden Mold blue and white This large mid-century studio potteryIn these parts, one finds a fair number of old industrial wooden molds. I love the silhouette and interplay of parts on this one, the contrast between finished dark wood and and black painted wood, and the dynamism of the whole thing, evoking planes, trains, machines, movement. I think it probably dates to the 1940s or so and came from a factory in Massachusetts or New Hamphire. Set it on a shelf or attach a hook to the back and hang it on the wall.