Fabulous Hand-formed Green Glazed Ceramic Face Bowl with Ear Handles Japanese modern complete with pin cushion on

complete with pin cushion on the underside of the lid

I believe it to be early 20th century African

giving it strength and a nice sheen

I found it at a terrific estate sale in Concord

and I believe these had been made by HIS father

Fabulous Hand-formed Green Glazed Ceramic Face Bowl with Ear Handles Japanese modern complete with pin cushion onOh, 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;