Fabulous Hand-formed Green Glazed Ceramic Face Bowl with Ear Handles curated antiques overall excellent condition

overall excellent condition

with the clay body showing through especially on and near the foot

which would not be visible once there is a plant inside

paperclips--whatever

the whole variety of birds and snakes and other creatures that surround them

Fabulous Hand-formed Green Glazed Ceramic Face Bowl with Ear Handles curated antiques overall excellent conditionOh, how I love this bowl! That face! Those ears! I don't know much of anything about it, but have a notion that it may have been made by Cynthia Nuwmark Prelack, the Boston based artist and gallerist at whose estate sale I purchased it. It seems to me to show the influence of South American figurative pottery (Shipibo pottery comes to mind), in which I know from her collection and library she had a great interest, and Southern face jugs as well;