Ceramic Fish with Teeth! small plate set ) I like to think

) I like to think this is the box in which Nathaniel Hawthorne delivered the handwritten manuscript for "House of the Seven Gables" (based in Salem

) Below that

made in Brazil

which allowed for clicking through multiple images on rotating cardboard disks

which gives it a nice shine

Ceramic Fish with Teeth! small plate set ) I like to thinkSuch a fabulous fish! I know nothing of its origins, but it's one of my favorite things. I found it at the estate sale of an artist and gallerist on Newbury Street in Boston, who dealt mostly in Haitian art but had a wonderful, eclectic collection of handmade objects from around the world. Those teeth! I love its roughness and the darkness of the clay body, decorated only with some blue glazing on the tail fin. Nice and heavy, with a terrific