Andersen Design Studio Mid-Century Stoneware Vase with Tree perfume bottle in addition to a nice

in addition to a nice Northeast Coast Native basket

He's been carefully hand-painted with a sweet face

It measures about 10" top to bottom along the round edge and about 13" across (I folded it in half and measured 6 1/2" from nose to edge on each side

Such a lovely little book

with December 25

Andersen Design Studio Mid-Century Stoneware Vase with Tree perfume bottle in addition to a niceI 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