Iridescent Gold Coil Built Pottery Vase with Many Faces 1940s photograph All in overall good condition

All in overall good condition

Interior is in original unpainted state

I find in them a perfect balance of awkwardness and grace

--and really a charmer

Iridescent Gold Coil Built Pottery Vase with Many Faces 1940s photograph All in overall good conditionSometimes I fall in love with things immediately, and other times it takes me a little while to realize their greatness, which is the case with this funny coil formed, iridescent gold painted pottery vase initialed DS and dated 2007, which I found in Maine this week. What I realized through the process of photographing it is how much it seems to reference folk art traditions, from memory jars to face jugs to seashell encrusted creations, making its