Andersen Design Studio Mid-Century Stoneware Vase with Tree tobacco box (The deck's creator

(The deck's creator

and presumably date from around the 1840s when Fitzgerald was engaged in military service

19th century New England/Maine Native American I believe

features wonderful full page caricatures of "the sovereigns" of the era by Portuguese painter and caricaturist Tomás Júlio Leal da Câmara (1876-1948)

and it also felt vaguely familiar--and

Andersen Design Studio Mid-Century Stoneware Vase with Tree tobacco box (The deck's creatorI found this c. 1960s Andersen Design vase not far from where it was made, in East Boothbay, Maine. It's a quintessential example of the work of Weston (1922 2015) and Brenda Andersen, who founded the studio in 1952. To me it feels one part brutalist, one part organic modern, and one part pure Maine! The body, with a bit of a grainy texture, is kind of a stony gray bisque, and the wonderfully branching bare tree an earthy brown. There were a few