A MICHELLE ERIKSON EARTHENWARE PEW GROUP 1993

derived from an 18th century Staffordshire creamware model, splashed in manganese and modelled as two gentlemen, one playing a violin, the other holding a book, seated on either side of a lady playing a recorder on a narrow, high-backed bench, incised ME '93

Michelle Erikson is a contemporary artist working in ceramics, who also is well known for her recreations of 17th and 18th century pottery groups and wares. She reproduces ceramics both from archeological and aquired collections for organizations such as Colonial Williamsburg, the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Historic Deerfield.