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Phillip Maberry
Untitled Vessel1988

Not on view
Ceramic vessel with a pale pink body painted with a stylized face, red oval dots, and black line work, surrounded by eight multicolored coiling snake-like tubes and a star-shaped painted foot
Ceramic vase with a footed base and multiple coiling sculptural handles painted in teal, yellow, and multicolor. The vessel body is painted with an expressive stylized face featuring blue eyes, red hair, and an open mouth, rendered in bold brushwork on a pale pink ground, with geometric and decorative motifs at the rim and base.
Artist or Maker
Phillip Maberry
Title
Untitled Vessel
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1988
Medium
Earthenware, glaze
Dimensions
19 x 17 x 9 in. (48.3 x 43.1 x 22.9 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits in honor of the museum's twenty-fifth anniversary
Accession Number
M.90.82.32
Classification
Furnishings
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Lauria, Jo; Color and Fire - Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2000.
  • Drexler Lynn, Martha. Clay Today: Contemporary Ceramists and their Work: a catalogue of the Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1990.