Russell Crook studio pottery stoneware vase with steers or cattle around the shoulder above a paneled design. It measures about 6 7/8 inches tall and 4 7/8 inches in diameter. It is in excellent condition with only a small foot rim chip and no other chips, cracks, firing flaws, or repairs. Unsigned. A good vase from a rare Arts & Crafts New England art pottery. Russell Crook worked by himself in Lincoln MA. He was an early member of the Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston and studied with Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and John Henry Twachtman and communicated with Charles Binns. He attended the Arts Students League in NY, and the Pennsylvania Institute of Art. Among his other accomplishments, he designed tiles for Grueby and created the fountain in Center Harbor NH.