Jane Heald Mid-Century Very Fine Gray-Brown Pottery Weed Pot ceramics collection And I find this drawing

And I find this drawing

3 1/4" tall

Circa 1970s

The box measure 3 3/8" in diameter and is 1

which seems like it could have been inspired by the work of Paul Klee (see Park bei Lu 1938

Jane Heald Mid-Century Very Fine Gray-Brown Pottery Weed Pot ceramics collection And I find this drawingThere 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.