Lidded Salt-Glazed Vessel
ca 1980
Stoneware; ht. 8.5, dia. 9.5 in.
Karnes is America’s doyen of salt-glazed ceramics. This example shows the extraordinary surfaces she coaxes from the fire with its distinctive expressive sculptural cut lid. Her touring exhibition, A Chosen Path, just closed at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA.
Private Collection.