Rat Tail Wall Vase Maker: Jim Melchert (American, 1930–2023)

1966

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Ceramic with platinum and black overglaze

Dimensions

45 × 3 1/4 × 2 1/2 in. (114.3 × 8.26 × 6.35 cm)

Credit Line

John P. Axelrod Collection, B.A. 1968

Accession Number

2014.97.16

Geography

Made in Oakland, California

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
The artist; sold to John P. Axelrod, Boston, 1991; given to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2014
Bibliography
  • Sequoia Miller, "'Nut Pot Bag or Clay Without Tears': An Artist's Gift in Honor of Jock Reynolds," in "Recent Acquisitions," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2018), 29–30, fig. 5
  • "Acquisitions 2015," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2015), 7
  • Sequoia Miller and John Stuart Gordon, The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art: Selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2015–16), 107, fig. 92
Object copyright
Copyright Jim Melchert
In Copyright
Additional information

Signed

Signed on reverse in ink

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