David Warren Seyler for Kenton Hills Porcelains, Inc., Vase

Mid-20th century, baluster form porcelain vase with round foot, glaze decorated in iron oxide cobalt and celadon tones depicting three mermaids and merman, signed and marked "Unicas / D. Seyler / * / [impressed manufacturer mark]/ 95" to the underside.

9 x 6 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.

David Warren Seyler was born in Dayton, Kentucky on July 31, 1917. His formal arts education began in 1933 at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He would go on to attend the University of Chicago and earned his BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1941). He attended the University of Colorado in the summer of 1951, and then returned to Chicago where he received his MS in Applied Art in 1955 from the School of the Art Institute. Seyler studied sculpture, painting, and printmaking, though his pursuits were much broader and a prolific career included graphic design, ceramics, stained glass, weaving, and furniture design and carpentry, among other art forms and media. He worked for Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati (1936-39), and for Kenton Hills Porcelains, Inc. in Erlanger, Kentucky in the 1940s.

Seyler taught at the University of Nebraska from 1948 to 1983. He exhibited throughout the United States and abroad, and was a Fellow of the International Society of Arts and Letters (1963). David Seyler passed away in Berkeley, California on October 23, 2010.

Good estate condition.