James Bone Self-Portrait With Tattooed Ear, 1991 Addison Miznersee hand thrown mid-century vintage pottery

hand thrown mid-century vintage pottery vase features hand painted birds -- kiwi

it still shows quite nicely on the horizontal splints

and think it would make a fantastic gift for one's dearest and truest friend

winding its way up and around the R from its cross-hatched pot below would be the perfect thing to hang in the room of a child with a first name starting with "R

James Bone Self-Portrait With Tattooed Ear, 1991 Addison Miznersee hand thrown mid-century vintage potteryFrom a second batch of drawings by the prolific and endlessly inventive Chicago artist James Frederic Bone (1929 2015), this is one of two wonderful 1991 cutout silhouette self portraits, with the features including tattooed ear and fanstastic star like wrinkles around the eye playfully rendered in black ink dots. Often recycling materials in his work, this one makes use of of a letter to Henry Fogel, Director of the Chicago Symphony, praising the