Beautiful vintage studio pottery stoneware purple glazed charger by Cleveland artist David Baez. David Batz, a Cleveland-based artist who died in 1994 at the age of 49 was graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and onetime pupil of renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly, Batz worked mostly in ceramic. Batz was an instructor at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Case Western Reserve University.
His work was on display several times in group exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Artists Foundation had a retrospective show for his work in 2000.