Faceted brown bowl with carved stripes

Jerome Ackerman, studio ceramic, marked ACKERMAN.

Low, irregular bowl with a pinched, almost square rim and a small foot. Exterior is warm brown stoneware with bands of carved diagonal stripes on the sides. Interior is a pale, quietly ringed glaze with a brown-and-white lip. Dated 1993 on the foot. Organic geometry rather than perfect circle.

Dimensions: Height: 2.75 in (6.99 cm)Width: 6.75 in (17.15 cm)Depth: 6.75 in (17.15 cm)

Jerome Ackerman (1920–2019) was a California modernist potter and designer. Trained at Wayne State and at Alfred University (MFA, 1952), he and his wife Evelyn moved to Los Angeles and founded Jenev Design Studio, later ERA Industries. Their ceramics, mosaics, tapestries, and woodcarvings helped define postwar West Coast modernism. After years running the business, Jerry returned to the wheel in the late 1980s, making reduction-fired stoneware. These later studio pieces are signed ACKERMAN on the foot.