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

but not to find

ones with carved faces are amazing

and with excellent alligatoring to the creamy white paint of the face on both sides

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

and deeply outlined eyes

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