Andersen Design Mid-Century Tall Elliptical Vase with Tree hand-decorated The Mission's "Village Industry Department"

The Mission's "Village Industry Department" brought artists from all over to support the artistic endeavors of the residents

but also just set somewhere

It features the head of Silenus (a drinking companion of Bacchus) on one side

--old Indian cast bronze Dhorka box (the second of two in the shop

with hand-painted lit cigarette on top

Andersen Design Mid-Century Tall Elliptical Vase with Tree hand-decorated The Mission's "Village Industry Department"This striking vase is a quintessential example of the mid century work of Andersen Design Studio, a pottery studio in East Boothbay, Maine founded by the late Weston (1922 2015) and Brenda Andersen in 1952. I really love the sensibilities this piece brings together: one part Brutalist, one part Organic Modern, and one part pure Maine! The body, with a bit of a grainy texture, is kind of a stony gray bisque, and the wonderfully branching bare tree an