Carved Stone Ladies Boot, 1917 vessel with face No flaws in coiling

No flaws in coiling

5 3/4" across with handles

The bowl measures 9 1/2” across at widest and 5 1/2” tall

Suda was strongly influenced by both Danish Modern pottery and native Canadian art--influences which I think wonderfully merge in these earthy and strikingly graphic hand-formed candleholders

Carved Stone Ladies Boot, 1917 vessel with face No flaws in coilingThis charming little silhouette carving of a Victorian style ladies' boot stands up proudly on its own, and features deeply incised then blackened detailing for the laces and across the toe, and then 1917, presumably the year of its making, on both sides. I am not entirely sure of the stone; it may be marble but I'm not quite certain. The white irregularities seem for the most part to be indigenous to the stone rather than dings to the surface, though