Pair of Canelos Quichia Ecuadorian Pottery Bowls with Face and Bird antique Burmese lacquer box 75" diameter x 1/2" tall

75" diameter x 1/2" tall

I purchased a pair of these vintage 1980s Memphis Design-syle ceramic pins at the estate sale of an artist--this one black and white

Fortunately

made for Terrain

would have been used for sifting meal

Pair of Canelos Quichia Ecuadorian Pottery Bowls with Face and Bird antique Burmese lacquer box 75" diameter x 1/2" tallThese two wonderful drinking bowls were made by indigenous Canelos Quichua women in the Oriente (upper Amazonian) region of Ecuador, probably in the 1970s or 80s. Between the star shaped face of the larger, with its eyebrows, nose, and mouth (with teeth!) sculpted in relief; the bird butterfly at the center of the smaller; and the wonderfully fine graphic patterns on both, I am completely charmed. No wonder that the pottery of this region is regarded