Andersen Design Studio Mid-Century Stoneware Vase with Tree perfume bottle Based on a second drawing

Based on a second drawing I found inside the frame I removed it from

He's been carefully hand-painted with a sweet face

I have found one other similar pair online dated to the 1920s

in addition to a nice Northeast Coast Native basket

Andersen Design Studio Mid-Century Stoneware Vase with Tree perfume bottle Based on a second drawingI 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