Eva Zeisel, a bird-form Creamer or Sauce Dish, Pals decoration pattern, Eva Zeisel Fine Stoneware, Monmouth Pottery, Western Stoneware Company, Monmouth, Illinois, circa 1953-1954. Height: 4 1/2 in. (11.5 cm); length: 5 3/4 in. (14 cm). 1620-060 Provenance: Estate of Bette Cooper Exhibited: San Diego, Mingei International Museum, 10 December 2006-12 April 2007; Los Angeles, Craft and Folk Art Museum, “Eva Zeisel: Extraordinary Designer at 100,” 9 September-30 December 2007. Note: Bette Cooper, co-author of Monmouth Western Stoneware (1983), was an unofficial archivist for the factory and collected examples of these works, including test pieces, as they came off the line. Her collection included numerous rarities. On this line, see Scott Vermillion, “Eva Zeisel Stoneware and Ironstone.” in Eva Zeisel: Life, Design, and Beauty, 2013, pp. 102-109.

Overall very good condition