Stunning Blue on Blue Large Arts and Crafts Style Hand-thrown Pottery Bowl unique sculpture which unfold to reveal a

which unfold to reveal a gray velveteen interior designed to hold Singer sewing machine attachments

The top of the box seems to have met the tip of many blades

- decorated with green

I think it might have been sitting for the past 50 years or so

so am not quite sure of the age of this piece

Stunning Blue on Blue Large Arts and Crafts Style Hand-thrown Pottery Bowl unique sculpture which unfold to reveal aThe surface design (and the graceful shape, too) on this gorgeous large hand thrown bowl reminds me a lot of the work of Newcomb Pottery, an Arts & Crafts pottery that ran 1895 1940 out of the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College in New Orleans (now associated with Tulane)which if you are not familiar with, look up, as it is just spectacular! It is also reminiscent of the textile and wall paper designs of Scottish architect and designer Charles Rennie