Glazed ceramic, circa 1990s, in the form of a tusked beetle with polychrome and iridescent glazes with a textured surface, unsigned.

23 x 9 1/2 x 14 in.

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

Habitat/Shaw Gallery, Recent Work, Farmington Mills, Michigan.

Michaela DiCosola received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Florida, Coral Gables, and is an assistant professor of ceramics at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton. Her sculpture comments on the numerous societal ills that concern her.

Good estate condition, some crazing to the glaze, barely visible repair to one tusk.