Gorgeous Yellow Painted Sculptural Tin Frame, with Glass 80s ceramics also known as Meerschaum

also known as Meerschaum

though I have not been able to place the mark on its underside

This large earthenware slip-painted vessel has an incredible presence and physicality that make it feel like a very special object indeed

early-mid 19th c

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Gorgeous Yellow Painted Sculptural Tin Frame, with Glass 80s ceramics also known as MeerschaumYum. Photos do this frame no real justice. I purchased it one from my favorite dealer in the Hudson River Valley and am rather obsessed with it. Made of tin, which appears quite old, I believe it is Mexican, likely made to house a retablo. The curled tin on each side makes it a very sculptural thing with great objecthood just right for a retablo of a saint or the Madonna herself, as if unfurling to reveal a vision from the heavenly world. The form and