Item 11699
 
Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this Lidded Earthware Bowl Signed by the Noted Potter, Everette Busbee.
 
Everette Busbee (1943-2020) was a Renaissance man with degrees in English, zoology, art, and ceramics.  He was most active in making pottery in the mid-to-late 1980's. He is known for wood-fired stoneware and low-fired earthenware.  His pottery is found in both simple earth tones and in brightly colored pieces inspired by Spanish pottery of the Renaissance.  His pottery is found in the New Orleans Museum of Art; Gardiner Museum, Toronto; Scripps College, Claremont, CA; Nora Eccles Harrison Museum  of Art, Logan, UT; San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, TX; and the Kamm Teapot Foundation, Statesville, NC.  
 
For more on his works, see www.themarksproject.org/marks/busbee.  
 
This lidded pot recently emerged from a very long time in storage.  It is a Korean Table Serving Pot or Fermentation Pot.  Korean Bird Figural from the Goryeo Dynasty (918 to 1392).  Busbee spent many years teaching English in South Korea and drew inspiration from its pottery.  This creation bears a Low Rounded Form, Two Handles, Three Feet, and a Doomed Lid with Curly Knob. It is unglazed earthware called Onggi fired at low temperature under 1,600 degrees.   It is signed on the bottom by the potter.  Measures 10" wide and 8 1/2" tall to the top of the knob.
 
Exceptional Condition.  As made.  No damage of any kind. 
 
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