Hand built stoneware, unsigned, a tall cylindrical vessel with dark glaze supports two applied ceramic shield form slabs, one shield of rectangular form with raised boss, the second shield of circular form with open crater revealing the interior of central cylinder.

21 in.

Gifted by the artist to Dick Wheeler in 1968. Mr. Wheeler was a studio assistant for Ruth Duckworth at the University of Chicago.

Born in Hamburg, German, Ruth Duckworth immigrated to England in 1936 following the rise of the Nazi party. While in England, she was introduced to the sculptors Henry Moore and Jacob Epstein. She began her sculptural work with lead, bronze, and wood, but fully embraced ceramics while studying with Dora Billington and other ceramicists at the Central School of Art & Crafts in London.


Repaired break to rim; several old shallow chips to the base.