Jerome Ackerman Studio Ceramic Carved Vessel

Jerome Ackerman, studio stoneware, marked ACKERMAN 96.

A small bottle form: rounded body, short neck, dark-stained lip. The cream-to-buff glaze is dry and slightly speckled. Incised herringbone panels wrap the body in diamond and chevron fields—the same carved-textile language as Ackerman’s larger herringbone vase. Unglazed sandy foot with the incised signature and number. Quiet, architectural, and clearly from his late studio period. Works as a single-stem vase or a small object on a shelf.

Jerome Ackerman (1920–2019)

Detroit-born potter and designer; MFA in ceramics from Alfred University (1952). With his wife Evelyn he founded Jenev Design Studio in Los Angeles and later ERA Industries, helping shape California mid-century modern through ceramics, mosaics, textiles, and wood. After years running the business, he returned to studio stoneware in the late 1980s—thrown, carved, reduction-fired vessels signed ACKERMAN on the foot.