SIGNED MIRRLE SQUIRES ENAMEL COPPER ART BOWL ABSTRACT MIDCENTURY MODERN 11 1/2\" For Sale

Measuring eleven and one half inches (11 1/2”) across the top at its widest point by three and three quarter inches (3 3/4”) in height at its highest point, enamelist Mirrle Squires created a hand-made and hand-beaten free-form enamel-on-copper bowl with varying heights to the sides and undulating peaks and valleys to the top rim. The surface of the copper bowl itself was aggressively hand-beaten to give it a “warty” texture. She then used an abstract painterly technique to render the bowl’s interior with bold brush-strokes of blue, purple, white, and reddish-pink enamels set against a translucent pink enamel background. And the bowl’s underside is counter enameled in a similar translucent pink enamel down to where the artist’s signature is located on the bottom. Here the bowl is signed “Mirrle” within a thicker opaque pink enamel.

This bowl displays both an organic and somewhat brutalist design concept while being an absolutely amazing example of midcentury modernism! Mirrle Squires was obviously a highly accomplished artist.

Condition: Excellent and beautiful! For an enamel of this size and of this age that has translucent enameling, this bowl is astonishingly flawless. There are a couple of very small firing dimples but these are original to the bowl. And there are felt remnants on the underside bottom.

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Domestic buyer pays calculated shipping for secure packing and USPS priority within the United States.

Selected International buyer pays calculated shipping depending on country. (International shipping is “only” available to: United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Austria, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Japan, Israel, and New Zealand. If you are \"not located\" in one of these countries, please do not offer without contacting me for approval. Thank you.)

MIRRLE ABBOTT SQUIRES 1925-1996 BIO

At the time of this writing, very little is known about Mirrle Abbott Squires. She was born in Los Angeles, California on June 1, 1925 and died September 8, 1996 in Rancho Cucamonga, California. Squires was a life-long artist and arts educator in the Southern California area, where she worked in several media including the enamel arts. Various newspaper accounts verify that Squires was active in the enamels arts from the 1950s through at least the 1970s. She was married to Gail Squires and they had two children, Dana and Debra.

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