Andersen Design Studio Mid-Century Stoneware Vase with Tree tobacco box making them great for sign

making them great for sign making

and presumably date from around the 1840s when Fitzgerald was engaged in military service

and it appears

Such a beauty

Most are marked with hand-written point values on one side

Andersen Design Studio Mid-Century Stoneware Vase with Tree tobacco box making them great for signI found this c. 1960s Andersen Design vase not far from where it was made, in East Boothbay, Maine. It's a quintessential example of the work of Weston (1922 2015) and Brenda Andersen, who founded the studio in 1952. To me it feels 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 earthy brown. There were a few