Jane Heald Mid-Century Very Fine Gray-Brown Pottery Weed Pot hunting whistle with the hand-painted pipe rendered

with the hand-painted pipe rendered in relief

and quite a collector's item

14”x28” (with an additional 2" of fringe on each end)

developing glazes using mineral deposits collected from around the province to get true to life colors for the mushrooms

Jane Heald Mid-Century Very Fine Gray-Brown Pottery Weed Pot hunting whistle with the hand-painted pipe renderedThere is not a lot out there about Jane Heald, the Pacific Palisades, CA potter (1916 1991) who created this gorgeous lilttle vase, which photos don't do justice, but an interview with Vivika Heino mentions her as being part of a workshop at UCLA, in 1953, taught by Shoji Hamada and Bernard Leach, and notes that Heald, being the only one in the group with her own high fire kiln, fired pots for everyone in the workshop, including Hamada and Leach.