PERSIMMON-ORANGE Ü-KERAMIK FAT LAVA VASE Nr. 1438/30 DOUGLAS LESLIE SHERMAN was a noted

LESLIE SHERMAN was a noted Beat Generation painter active in San Francisco in the mid-20th century

They admired the folk traditions of a time when hand-made ceramics were functional and had no industrial alternatives

In 1939 Henri Matisse and his wife of 41 years separated

along with his wife and longtime partner

PERSIMMON-ORANGE Ü-KERAMIK FAT LAVA VASE Nr. 1438/30 DOUGLAS LESLIE SHERMAN was a notedA tall, rectangular, persimmon orange vase from Keramik that transitions at the shoulder to a round neck and mouth covered with a thick and bubbly, metallic fat lava drip glaze with shades of butterscotch and gunmetal. KERAMIK (aka BELACKER) began as a tin foundry in 1909 in the small town of Ransbach Baumbach in the southwest German state of Rhineland Palatinate. Master tinsmith Johann belacker initially produced simple pewterware, but he was soon