54. Jennifer Wyman, miniature lidded container

54. Jennifer Wyman, miniature lidded container

Wyman is a Boston-based potter. She began ceramics during college in Texas and studied traditional pottery in Ghana and Ethiopia, She teaches ceramics in the Boston area and is an active member of Feet of Clay Pottery, a workspace and teaching center in Brookline, Massachusetts. For more on her and other examples of her work, see her webpage at https://feetofclaypottery.com/artists/jenn-wyman/. This and items 55-61 are only a small part of her work. At the time I bought these, I was focusing on smaller objects because I had run out of display space. She does make larger pots than the ones in my collection.

Light gray clay, brown glaze; base, underside of lid, and areas of the bottom section where the two parts meet left unglazed. Weight: 104 g (3.7 oz). Bottom section—rim diameter: 3.7 cm (1-1/2 in); maximum diameter: 6 cm (2-1/4 in); foot ring diameter: 3.2 cm (1-1/4 in). Lid—maximum diameter: 3.5 cm (1-3/8 in). Height: overall: 5.7 cm (2-1/4 in); bottom section: 3.7 cm (1-1/2 in); lid: 2.4 cm (15/16 in).

The foot ring is hollowed out on the inside to a depth of 0.2 cm (1/16 in). The artist’s initials, JSW, were incised into the center of the ring. The walls of the pot rise outward in a regular arc to the maximum diameter, which is at the midpoint of the bottom section, and then curve inward to the rim. The walls have five (four in some places) concentric rings of irregular bevels, where the surface has been pressed flat. The mouth is slightly lower than the rim, and a gallery circles the mouth to hold the lid in place. In the center of the underside of the lid is a protruding circle 1.7 cm (5/8 in) in diameter. The underside has been cut away around this in a gentle slope up to the outside edge of the lid. Around the outside of the upper side of the lid is a flattish ring of bevels. The lid then curves into a narrow central post supporting a wider pyramidal shape that serves as a grasping point. The sides of this “handle” have been flattened into a series of six vertical triangles that rise to a point in the center. The lid sits loosely into the bottom part.

A brown glaze was applied to the interior and exterior of the pot. Left unglazed were the ring foot, the gallery, and the underside of the lid.

Purchased at the annual spring sale at Feet of Clay Pottery, Brookline, Massachusetts, April 2018.