Glazed stoneware, circa late 1950s to1968; beige exterior and taupe interior, having painted geometric motifs at the base and cubist faces to the lid, topped with a flared handle, signed by both artists to the underside.

7 x 9 in. dia.

From the Estate of the late Patricia J. Shaw, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Aaron Bohrod met Carlton Ball in 1950 when Ball was working in Madison, Wisconsin. Bohrod attended Ball's ceramic courses in the evenings when he allowed faculty members to attend. Ball was interested in Bohrod's sense of design and offered to provide some pots for him to decorate. "He turned over some certain things to me, in various stages, either a sopping wet stage, which would allow you to do a little graffito work right on the surface, or in the dried first-fired state, where you’re able to apply the decoration to overlays of pigment"..."by the end of the year, we had achieved enough in the way of mutual pottery to have an exhibition at the old library in Madison, which was very successful." Afterward, the two set up a ceramics studio in Carbondale and spent several weeks out of the year for the decade that followed collaborating on mutual pots.

A few minor hairlines to the foot rim and interior rim of the dish.