This group consists of: a bowl with a grey exterior and orange interior drizzled with multicolored pigments and raised clear yellow enamel bumps, bottom signed "Winter,; measures approx. 1-3/4"T x 6-1/4" in diameter; a deep turquoise enamel square dish with white splash detail around the perimeter, signed "Winter," measures approx. 4" in diameter, please note there are losses to enamel on bottom and bruising on the interior; and ashtray with a butterfly design, signed "Winter" measures approx. 5" in diameter; an oblong dish with brown enameled exterior and interior decorated with raised enamel in shades of ochre, signed "Winter," measures approx. 5-1/2" x 3-1/2", and three cranberry red ashtrays, two of them signed "Winter", one decorated with white and black enamel drippings and dedication "Kirkwood Marie C.M.A." bottom signed "1948 Greetings Thelma and Ed Winter." All three measure approx. 4" in diameter.
Edward Winter, known for his enamel pieces and murals, wrote a book on the subject: Enamel Painting Techniques, glass fused on metals (1970). He was apparently associated at one time with the Cowan Pottery Company of Ohio, but there seems to be a question as to whether Ed actually worked for Cowan. There is, apparently, one known example of Cowan pottery signed by Ed Winter: a small vase with an unsuccessful experimental enamel finish (WRHS collection), and this may have been a blank decorated outside the pottery. R. Guy Cowan, founder of Cowan Pottery, and Ed Winter were undoubtedly associated later, as Guy Cowan, after the demise of his pottery company in 1931, went to work for the Ferro Corporation of Cleveland, which is the very same place that Ed used after hours as his laboratory/studio for the developement of his enamelling techniques. Winter married Thelma Frazier, a painter and pottery decorator, and both had successful careers as artists.
200/400 Sold $80.50
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