Mid-Century Studio Pottery Plate with Abstracted Nude in Landscape Renwick gallery The exterior shows a wonderfully

The exterior shows a wonderfully nuanced range of tones

Certainly they bear a very strong resemblance to the animals of Swiss toy designer and maker Antonio Vitali (who also designed many toys produced by Creative Playthings)

and it would had a come in a box titled "Prairie Wagon

at lower right

Mid-Century Studio Pottery Plate with Abstracted Nude in Landscape Renwick gallery The exterior shows a wonderfullyI 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