Fabulous Hand-formed Green Glazed Ceramic Face Bowl with Ear Handles curated antiques including both antique and contemporary

including both antique and contemporary decor

with the clay body showing through especially on and near the foot

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

reading "Exportadores del Inca S

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

Fabulous Hand-formed Green Glazed Ceramic Face Bowl with Ear Handles curated antiques including both antique and contemporaryOh, 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;