The delightful design on this Bird with Green Wings Redware Ring Vase is created using the Sgraffito technique and cogged edges. The ring vase is depicted in brown, with a bird with green wings perched right at its center, surrounded by floral elements on either side. Handcrafted in traditional redware, the everyday ceramic of 18th-century households, this handmade vase draws deep inspiration from early American folk art, leatherwork motifs, woodcarvings, and traditional Pennsylvania German fraktur designs.
Each one-of-a-kind piece is made by River Rat Pottery, an artisan studio in Conestoga, Pennsylvania run by the husband-and-wife team Bob and Sally Hughes. They specialize in creating traditional early American redware pottery and Pennsylvania German folk art.
