Mid-Century Gouache on Paper, Unsigned Abstraction in Period Frame handmade vintage ashtray just great proportions

just great proportions

and I think if everyone had a set of these the world would be a better

and the atomic orange glaze is their perfect match

with the Hard-A-Port sailor logo at center

The woman on the cup is a version of the Baker logo: a chocolate server

Mid-Century Gouache on Paper, Unsigned Abstraction in Period Frame handmade vintage ashtray just great proportionsThis was the first thing that caught my eye as I walked into a show in Bath, Maine last weekend, and it has caught my eye a hundred times since! Mid century I believe, gouache on what looks like watercolor paper, in a deep period frame, gold on the facing edge. Perhaps this was done in art class as a exercise in color and form, or perhaps the work of a well known practicing artist, maybe signed somewhere not visible. (I have not taken it out of the