Jane Heald Mid-Century Very Fine Gray-Brown Pottery Weed Pot ceramics collection 3 1/4" tall

3 1/4" tall

and I would assume mid-40s or not too long after

and really nicely made

And I find this drawing

The box measure 3 3/8" in diameter and is 1

Jane Heald Mid-Century Very Fine Gray-Brown Pottery Weed Pot ceramics collection 3 1/4" tallThere 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.