Jane Heald Mid-Century Very Fine Gray-Brown Pottery Weed Pot little dishes Kazakhstan and other Central Asian

Kazakhstan and other Central Asian countries ("Suzani" comes from the Persian "Suzan"

a pretty cool thing

firmly stitched together

which operated through the 1980s

These sweet old little wooden stands and ladder were once part of a Schoenut "Humpty Dumpty Circus" set --which is worth looking up as the clowns and articulated animals in the old sets are AMAZING

Jane Heald Mid-Century Very Fine Gray-Brown Pottery Weed Pot little dishes Kazakhstan and other Central AsianThere is not a lot out there about Jane Heald, the Pacific Palisades, CA potter (1916 1991) who created this gorgeous lilttle vase, which photos don't do justice, but an interview with Vivika Heino mentions her as being part of a workshop at UCLA, in 1953, taught by Shoji Hamada and Bernard Leach, and notes that Heald, being the only one in the group with her own high fire kiln, fired pots for everyone in the workshop, including Hamada and Leach.