DEVIL MASK FROM FREIWALD ART POTTERY AFTER GIO PONTI AND DE POLI

A ceramic devil mask in a dark, gunmetal glaze by contemporary New Jersey ceramic artist Richard Freiwald, modeled after a mid-century Italian original by architect and industrial designer Gio Ponti (1891–1979) and enameler Paolo De Poli (1905–1996). RICHARD FREIWALD (b. 1955) is a celebrated ceramicist and educator from Highland Park, N.J., noted for his refined craftsmanship and evocative designs. His work has been widely exhibited in New Jersey and New York and is held in numerous private and museum collections around the world. Freiwald has earned the particular esteem of collectors who appreciate objets d’art from the Art Nouveau and the American Arts and Crafts movements. His sometimes eccentric forms are made transcendent with the application of an astounding variety of experimental glazes. Freidland received an M.F.A. from Mason Gross School of the Arts, the arts conservatory at Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, N.J., in 1982. He began his teaching career in 1980, finally