Wear-Ever Cookware Ink and Gouache Illustration American art pottery bowl with thin black bands near

with thin black bands near the lip of the lid and near the top and bottom of the body

with a little staining her and there but structurally very sound and stable and super sweet

To my eye this drawing is just about a perfect thing

Presumed mid-century

Handle is 7/16" in diameter

Wear-Ever Cookware Ink and Gouache Illustration American art pottery bowl with thin black bands nearI didn't know it when I found this drawing, but WearEver Cookware was quite a notable thing, originating (according to Wikipedia) "in 1888 when Charles Martin Hall, a young inventor from Oberlin, Ohio discovered an inexpensive way to smelt aluminum by perfecting the electrochemical reduction process that extracted aluminum from bauxite ore. Seeking to fund his continued exploration of this new process Hall eventually partnered with Alfred E. Hunt, a