Jane Heald Mid-Century Very Fine Gray-Brown Pottery Weed Pot micmac curlicue basket exquisitely crafted object that I

exquisitely crafted object that I find unbelievably beautiful and powerful

strap long enough to wear cross-body

gouache on paper

The hand-painted design--really a drawing on clay--reminds me of a  map with shape-shifting land masses

Jane Heald Mid-Century Very Fine Gray-Brown Pottery Weed Pot micmac curlicue basket exquisitely crafted object that IThere is not a lot out there about Jane Heald, the Pacific Palisades, CA potter (1916 1991) who created this gorgeous lilttle vase, which photos don't do justice, but an interview with Vivika Heino mentions her as being part of a workshop at UCLA, in 1953, taught by Shoji Hamada and Bernard Leach, and notes that Heald, being the only one in the group with her own high fire kiln, fired pots for everyone in the workshop, including Hamada and Leach.