Plate set with ruminants theme

Edgar Miller
1987
Painted and glazed porcelain
Diameter: 25cm

Edgar Miller produced hundreds, if not thousands, of hand-painted plates, bowls, teacups and other ceramics over the decades, mostly as gifts to friends and family. This particular quartet of plates features various types of antlered animals—figurations that Miller loved to portray across many media.  Caribou, antelope, deer, and other antlered animals were common sights during Miller’s childhood on the Idaho frontier, and Miller carried with him a romantic ideal of nature that he continuously brought to his art.