JANE & GORDON MARTZ TABLE LAMP FOR MARSHALL STUDIOS

A rare, solid-walnut box table lamp, with a total of nine teal-colored tile insets, by Jane and Gordon Martz for MARSHALL STUDIOS.  Retaining its original shade.  Newly wired.  Mod. JANE & GORDON MARTZ met as students at the New York State College of Ceramics in Alfred, New York.  In 1951 they joined MARSHALL STUDIOS in Veedersberg, Indiana, where, for 38 years, they designed and produced a wide variety of functional ceramic housewares including stoneware lamps, dishes, and tiles.  The Martzes' work has been recognized by MoMA in New York City where some of it is included in the permanent collection. MARSHALL STUDIOS was founded in 1922 by Jessie "Muz" Marshall, who began her career painting lampshades by hand in her Indianapolis home.  Shades led to lamp bases and then to a small Indianapolis factory, where a line of turned wood lamps with painted shades was produced.  By the time her granddaughter, Jane Marshall, married Gordon Martz in 1951, MARSHALL STUDIOS was in the hands of