Faceted Studio Pottery Vase with Light Blue Animals by Jeffrey Lipton wooden face but no cracks or splits

but no cracks or splits

Garden City

landscapes

The other features a sculpted nose

and then an all over pattern of leaves/flowers on the sides and top which give it sort of a Southeast Asian feel

Faceted Studio Pottery Vase with Light Blue Animals by Jeffrey Lipton wooden face but no cracks or splitsSuch a curious vase, and I think quite a charming one, with these highly stylized stacked animals on opposite sides rendered in matte baby blue. Hand thrown then trimmed and I believe salt fired, the stoneware vessel itself feels Japanese, but then this giraffe, pig, bird, and I'm not sure what (!) turn it into something else entirely! I've just learned this piece is a quintessential example of the recent work of Bowdoinham, Maine based ceramicist