Charles Rudy's 1854 Notebook with Trigonometry, Surveying & Astronomical Drawing, Lehigh Gap, PA kind When I found her she

When I found her she immediately made me think of Donatello's Mary Magdalene

Woven of sweetgrass and ash splint naturally dyed a dark brown

the fourth has some blackish marks against the red splash

A repair of a small break along the lip was made to this bowl at some point

which suggests a postage stamp

Charles Rudy's 1854 Notebook with Trigonometry, Surveying & Astronomical Drawing, Lehigh Gap, PA kind When I found her sheI didn't know it when I found this, but its maker, Charles Rudy (b. 1837)the super bright and very entrepreneurial youngest child of Durs Rudy (a Swiss immigrant who kept a store and hotel, became an organist and was also, interestingly, a talented fraktur artist)would become quite a notable figure not just in Lehigh Valley, PA, where he grew up, but in Paris, where he established a school that became a hub for international nobility and the sons and