Lot 6: Bottle with stopper, 1960s

Bottle with stopper , 1960s
Glazed stoneware.  16 1/4 in. (41.3 cm) high  Undersigned "Leza."

"The form expression of our time is strong, vital, telegraphic. For the artists of a period to be content to accept unassimilated the art forms of another is an indication of an intellectual hibernation. To me it is more gratifying to fail miserably in trying to live today's world than to succeed knowingly imitating products of the culture of some distant, unfamiliar place or people." Leza McVey in Ceramics Monthly, June 1953   "My approach is entirely personal - quite frankly I am more than a little weary of the pseudo-Oriental. No vital period in history has been content to express its need in the quotation marks of a previous period." Leza McVey in Everyday Art Quarterly, 1953