Arched Flower Sculpture

An arched composition of ceramic and metal resolves into a sculptural bloom, its antiqued brass and alabaster elements accruing the quiet authority of something long collected rather than recently acquired. At fifteen and a half inches tall, the piece commands its surface with a presence disproportionate to its footprint — intimate in scale, considered in every material relationship. John Richard brings to it the same curatorial sensibility that defines the broader collection: a confidence in restraint, and an understanding that true ornament needs no embellishment beyond the integrity of its own form.