Edwin and Mary Scheier Blue Glazed Studio Pottery Dish with Two Faces shield ) The more you look

) The more you look

The box is in excellent overall condition

made for holding a drink while mounted on horseback

I would be reluctant to actually use these as plates

75ʺd × 5

Edwin and Mary Scheier Blue Glazed Studio Pottery Dish with Two Faces shield ) The more you lookThis 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