Fabulous Hand-formed Green Glazed Ceramic Face Bowl with Ear Handles vintage watercolor tins from human to animal

from human to animal

one on either side

betel chewing was central to social interaction

shorter than one typically sees

Fabulous Hand-formed Green Glazed Ceramic Face Bowl with Ear Handles vintage watercolor tins from human to animalOh, 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;