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

overall excellent condition

the smaller more shallow as the music box is housed below it

" a ukiyo-e print first published sometime between 1826 and 1833 and one of the most famous works of Japanese art

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

which I think would be great filled with nuts or shells or little treats

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;