Large and Lovely Edwin and Mary Scheier Pottery, USA, 1980s

Beautiful charger by Edwin & Mary Scheier. Signed on the back. Great image and color.

A great example of both their earlier Arp-esk style showing the influence Oaxaca shortly after they moved there in 1960. Signed and dated "Scheier 63".

Blue stoneware charger by Edwin & Mary Scheier. Signed Scheier circa late 1940s-early 1950s.

A large and stunning stoneware ceramic vessel in the form of an urn or a deep bowl by American potters Mary and Edwin Scheier (1908-2007;1910-2008) dat...

Early and rare hand-thrown ceramic serving dish by mid-century modern masters, Edwin and Mary Scheier. With curved handles and a swirl design, this fabulous hand-crafted pottery ston...

A great Italian Post Modern art pottery bowl by noted artist , Pino Castagna . Signed. Biography: Pino Castagna was born in Castelgomberto, Italy, in 1932, and studied in the schools of fine arts of Verona and Venice. Together with Scottish sculptor Michael Noble and his wife, Ida Borleti, from 1957 and 1963 he designed a creative skill stimulation programme for the mental patients of the Verona psychiatric hospital, as well as directed a ceramics school and workshop in Garda. His growing interest in sculpture was encouraged by frequent visits to Paris and Milan. In 1969, he moved his workshop to Costermano del Garda, Italy, where he currently lives and works. Since then, Castagna’s work has been characterised by constant experimentation with new techniques and materials as diverse as ceramics, aluminium, stone, wood, concrete, strings or tree branches. Each of these offers a new and original expressive possibility, which the artist explores by testing the materials’ plastic potential and pushing their endurance limits. In addition to his practice as sculptor, Castagna’s oeuvre encompasses painting and design, as well as public art, fully revealing the architectural and environmental vocation of his work. Remarkable examples of this vocation may be found in Cespo veneziano [Venetian Basket...