Edwin and Mary Scheier Blue Glazed Studio Pottery Dish with Two Faces three-drawer cabinet And I swear

And I swear

created more than a hundred years prior (in 1898

I'd put something very special inside of it

on which there is some loss of lacquer on the backside in one corner

Edwin and Mary Scheier Blue Glazed Studio Pottery Dish with Two Faces three-drawer cabinet And I swearThis hand thrown small plate dish was created by Mary and Edwin Scheier, a fascinating couple at the vanguard of American studio pottery. Largely self taught and consummately curious, the two met working on a WPA project in Virginia, travelled the country for a period as itinerant puppeteers, worked, studied and started making pottery together in East Tennesee, taught for many years in New Hampshire, and later lived in Oaxaca, studying Oaxacan craft