Early 20th Charles Walter Clewell Style Copper Clad Ceramic Arts & Craft Vase

Description

This piece is unsigned and is not officially attributed to Clewell, but style, age, and copper surface make it a very similar to the work of Clewell.
Charles Walter Clewell, of Canton, Ohio, started experimenting with copper, brass, bronze and silver products in about 1899, producing cast, hand-wrought and riveted pieces. In 1906 Clewell opened his first business and by 1909 had developed his metal-on-pottery technique. Clewell accomplished this by appIy a skin-tight shell, often copper or bronze, over a clay pot. Clewell worked on this technique for years to perfect it. He was highly secretive about the process he used, but it appeared to be a form of electroplating.
DIMENSIONS
4.5ʺW × 4.5ʺD × 10.5ʺH