Hand-thrown Mustardy Brown Stoneware Cooking and Serving Pot handcrafted box handwoven on a backstop loom

handwoven on a backstop loom

and Murray Silverstein with Max Jacobson

I purchased it at the estate sale of a family of artists who had many wonderful things

which highlighted the best of American Machine Age design and craftsmanship in aluminum

with dyed red and green grass used for the snake-like decoration

Hand-thrown Mustardy Brown Stoneware Cooking and Serving Pot handcrafted box handwoven on a backstop loomI just love this pot. It makes me want to cook a big pot of black eyed peas in it just so that I can put it on the table. But when not in use I'd keep it on the counter in the kitchen maybe filled with a few bags of dried beans just waiting to be cooked! Hand thrown, it's beautifully made, with a great shape, and glazed a terrific warm, variegated mustardy brown (darker on the lid, a bit lighter from lip to shoulders, with thin black bands near the