Hand-Thrown and Sculpted Studio Pottery Hanging Stoneware Planter With Female Face soapstone trinket box This sweet and truly lovely

This sweet and truly lovely small pitcher with hand-painted bluebirds dates from the first decade or so of the 20th century

I am completely charmed

I have also found a few of these online described as hair combs or hair forks

With a lion

and I think was used by him or her quite a bit

Hand-Thrown and Sculpted Studio Pottery Hanging Stoneware Planter With Female Face soapstone trinket box This sweet and truly lovelyI picture ivy streaming down the sides of this marvelous hand thrown and sculpted stoneware planter as it hangs from a high hook in a plant filled sunroom. Vintage 1970s I would guess, perhaps one should wear a caftan while watering to complete the scene! It certainly puts me in that sort of an earth goddess y mood, which suggests perhaps she is actually better used for growing herbs to complete dishes gleaned from Moosewood or my favorite, the