Vintage Gladys Collins Hand Signed Flower Porcelain Bowl Hand Painted Red Japan

Vintage Gladys Collins Hand Signed Flower Porcelain Bowl Hand Painted Red Japan

Vintage Gladys Collins Hand Signed Flower Porcelain Bowl Hand Painted Red Japan

Gladys Collins in the 1920’s studied design at the Otis Institute in Los Angeles.  She then was on the art staff at Geary’s in Beverly Hills

Source:

Edan Hughes, “Artists in California,  1786-1940”

The Otis Years, p. 11

1916 General Harrison Gray Otis, L.A.Times publisher, donates his spacious Wilshire Boulevard home, known as the Bivouac, to Los Angeles County to be used “continuously and perpetually for the Arts and advancement of the Arts.”

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1920’s-1930’s Hand signed on the right lower side of the bowl

Red backstamp JAPAN on base

Tulip edged bowel with gold bamboo “crossed” handle

Iridescent glaze on the inside of the this peice

Gorgeous greens with hand glazed fowers

The bowl has a 1/4″ round pedestal at the base 

5 1/2″ s 4″ x 3″

The raised relief on the bowl is stunning….

A rare piece of extremly desirable art from a unique artist…

 
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