BEATRICE WOOD Beato IRIDESCENT Luster Multi-Handle BUTTON Bottle Pottery Vase

Beatrice Wood (Beato) fine art pottery vase. Globular bottle or vase with multiple handles and buttons. Distinctive luster glazed pottery showing tones of green, gold, and blue. Measures 6 3/4" tall x 6 1/2". Signed Beato at base. Excellent condition, no chips, cracks, or repairs. Purchased from Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca in 1981

Beatrice Wood (1893 - 1998) was an American artist known as the "Mama of Dada" for her association with the Dada movement and her pioneering work with luster-glazed ceramics. Born in San Francisco in 1893, she defied her wealthy family to become an artist and writer, co-founding the Dada art journal The Blind Man with Marcel Duchamp. Wood began her prolific career in ceramics at age 40, eventually becoming famous for her distinctive lustrous pottery and later for her figurative sculptures and autobiographical writings. She continued to create art until her death at 105, leaving a legacy celebrated in museum collections worldwide and the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts

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