18" Hand Crafted Studio Art Pottery Charger by Firuse Stalcup

This stunning high fired ceramic charger was purchased at the Sedona Arts Center in 2006. It is signed by the artist, Firuse Stalcup. The glaze colors include shades of blue and tan. The interior is smooth and the perimeter has a grainy texture that is highly decorated with a sgraffito technique. Firuse Stalcup (1945-2019) was an extraordinary woman. A native of Iran, she grew up in a talented, prominent Iranian family, before re-locating to Austria. Fluent in five languages, she received numerous scholarships before obtaining her master’s degree in chemical engineering from the Polytechnic University in Vienna, Austria. A position with the Atomic Energy Commission ultimately led her to the US and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution where she met and married a colleague, Marvel Stalcup. While raising her family of six children in Falmouth for 15 years, Ms. Stalcup founded and operated a nursery school, the Little Red Schoolhouse in East Falmouth, and worked with Harvard educators.