Mid-Century Studio Pottery Plate with Abstracted Nude in Landscape vintage orange planter grazing hare

grazing hare

which I believe are African and made of bone and what appears to be silver or silver plate (it is quite shiny

I'd guess the Mich at the bottom may refer to Michigan but am not sure

The subjects of his artworks included landscapes

created in 1985 by “Ogden Cocktail Construction Co (with recipes by K McCarthy and approved by friends Gary

Mid-Century Studio Pottery Plate with Abstracted Nude in Landscape vintage orange planter grazing hareI LOVE the figure on the face of this plate, strangely and evocatively elongated like a late day shadow, and with these two wonderfully trailing inky black lines lending just a bit of definition and also tension. It makes me think of everything from the paintings of Albert Pinkham Ryder to those of de Chirico to the work of Ana Mendieta to the early 20th century photographs of Anne Brigman (look her up!), and Arts & Crafts era craft, too, and I've