Trench-y Heavy Handmade Brass and Aluminum Ashtray orange and brown spice chest whoever he is

whoever he is

creamy white

with shiny salt glazes

in Art History from the University of Iowa

Robert Sheridan's mother on the back of it: "Bob won third prize for this picture June 1945 when in 2a2 at Brooklyn prep

Trench-y Heavy Handmade Brass and Aluminum Ashtray orange and brown spice chest whoever he isIf not made during wartime, this emphatically handmade ashtray at least has a very strong make do trench art sensibility, and the brass looks very much to me like melted down shell casings. I really love its fat walled, amoeba like shape, and then these shiny silver shapes (aluminum I believe, and revealed to be one plate when turned over) that read a bit like landmasses with a river running through. Really an excellent object I think, perfect on the