Huge Early Yellowware Bowl with Old Make Do Wire (and Remnants of Leather) Repair antique brushes but not to find

but not to find

and quite a beautiful

Following a little research

I found these at an estate sale loaded to the gills with a lifetime's accumulation of all manner of things

with Jose and his family looking as if both signaling "help" and gratefully waving to her

Huge Early Yellowware Bowl with Old Make Do Wire (and Remnants of Leather) Repair antique brushes but not to findA big, beautiful early yellowware bowl, 19th century (unmarked, un banded, un footed, i. e. the very best sort I think) made special by a fat old wire repair along the lip, backed by what I believe is a now much hardened piece of leather on the outside, which looks to be the remnant of what was once a strip that ran all along the crack, leaving a stain behind. I find it all very beautiful, with the character of the repair perfectly matching the