Gorgeous Signed Studio Pottery Large Gourd Shaped Weed Pot paper holder typically commissioned by wealthy foreigners

typically commissioned by wealthy foreigners and engraved with their monograms

In 1935 Ballantine used an advertising campaign explaining how the 3 ring logo originated

circa 1920s

I might guess 1930s-1940s or so

this really teems with love and warmth

Gorgeous Signed Studio Pottery Large Gourd Shaped Weed Pot paper holder typically commissioned by wealthy foreignersFound in Maine, and I believe by a Maine based ceramicist, as I have come across one equally striking vase in Maine by I am sure the same artist (which was snapped up by Ryan Wagner of Newlyn Lowly.) To my eye just a stunner of a piece and a wonderful play on the form of a weedpot, with tiny opening in the stem at top. Clearly meant to represent a gourd, I'd display it next to a bowl of carefully chosen stone fruit! Fantastic surface, gorgeous color,