Pisgah Forest
Stoneware Vase
This rare Pisgah Forest handled
vase is a creation of W. B. Stephens from North Carolina Pottery at the end of
the Arts and Crafts era. This fine vase features an unusual cameo
decoration in white against a deep navy blue high glaze background. The
decoration, as pictured above, includes a variety of Masonic symbols... the
pillars of Boaz and Jachin, hourglass, sun, moon, shovel, coffin and sprig of
acacia. The bulbous base of the vase is a high glaze turquoise and the
interior, a bright pink. It measures
6 1/2" tall and is 5 3/4" wide at the looping, applied handles. It
is marked with the Pisgah Forest raised in mold mark, the date, (which I think
is 1940), and the signature, in ink, of W. B. Stephens.
