Jug 1935 - 1942

Henry Meyers rendered this jug with watercolor and graphite. Notice the floral motifs spiraling around the jug's body in cobalt blue. These stylized leaves are not merely decorative; they echo motifs found across millennia, from ancient Grecian pottery to Renaissance tapestries. These botanical forms, abstract as they are, speak to humanity's enduring connection with nature, embodying themes of growth, renewal, and the cyclical rhythms of life. Consider how such motifs have been employed in different cultural contexts – sometimes signifying fertility, other times, marking funerary rites. The choice of blue, too, is laden with symbolic weight. Once a pigment as precious as gold, its use here evokes ideas of rarity, purity, and the divine. These aren't merely pretty patterns but are rather visual echoes of collective memories. A recurring symbol resurfaces here, an image laden with meaning, forever shifting and adapting.