Japanese Mingei Type TeaDust and Tenmoku Glaze Studio Pottery Vase Illegibly Signed

15 inches tall.

The signature name starts with a K.

 

To me, it looks like Kemp.

 

Possibly early Jim Kemp?

 

Could be Floyd Kemp. Saw a lidded piece on EBay with a similar signature:

https://m.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Floy...stract-Don-Drumm-Studios-/302280205290?_ul=AR

Wish it were Jim Kemp. I have a platter with a similar signature as well.

 

Found another Floyd Kemp large vase on RubyLane:

https://www.rubylane.com/item/1705970-W381/Mid-Century-Floyd-Kemp-Large-Earthenware

 

Floyd Kemp apparently received his MA from The University of Iowa School of Art and Art History in 1965. See the graduate archives:

http://grads.art.uiowa.edu/?artist=&program=Ceramics&gradyear=1965

"His influence remains in hundreds of former students who took his pottery classes at Jackson Community College in Michigan during his 26-year career. He continued here in Black Mountain. He sold to 21 shops across the country. And then one day in 1998, he walked into the kitchen and looked at Lori and said, without reason, 'I’m done potting.'"

https://www.ourstate.com/floyd-kemp/