Jane Heald Mid-Century Very Fine Gray-Brown Pottery Weed Pot ceramics collection Circa 1970s

Circa 1970s

but I'm a big fan of small dishes that can be used for serving this or that

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

and the Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design

This little jewel of a bowl

Jane Heald Mid-Century Very Fine Gray-Brown Pottery Weed Pot ceramics collection Circa 1970sThere 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.