Jane Peiser (NC, 1933-2022), Impressive Farm Scene Table Lamp

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Penland, hand-built colored and salt-glazed porcelain, (18) figures comprising teams of oxen and three pairs of farm hands, circumnavigating a central landscape pillar with night scape sky, wired with single socket fixture and shade, initialed "JP" to the base.

25 x 17 x 17 (including shade); 17 x 13 x 13 in (excluding shade and harp)

Lot 74 (624617)
Jane Peiser (NC, 1933-2022), Ceramic Celestial Nightscape Jardiniere
Penland, hand-built colored and salt-glazed ceramic, signed near the base, formed a cup form planter, decorated whimsical houses at night beneath a start and celestial figured sky.
8 1/4 x 8 x 8 in.
Jane had a Masters of Science in education from Illinois Institute of Technology and began her career as a teacher of art history in Chicago. She was also a painter for a time, but eventually turned her attention to ceramics. Her former husband and lifelong friend, glass artist Mark Peiser, explained that her interest was always in people and faces. “She had some issues with backgrounds,” he said, “and this caused her to start making compositions by putting ceramic tiles onto things.”

She was a generous teacher who led workshops at Penland, Oregon College of Art and Craft, the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana, Hawaii Arts and Craft, and other venues. She received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and her work is in collections including the Smithsonian Institution in DC and the Mint Museum of Art in North Carolina. She also contributed a chapter to The Penland School of Crafts Book of Pottery (1975).

Scattered areas of losses along the fence line; repair to one central leaf tip; operating well at the time of review.