Unusual Hand-Painted Pottery Vase With Large Birds party ware the shape: I love everything

the shape: I love everything about these Japanese fish plates

a ceramic artist who founded the Rare Earth Mudworks in Amesbury

typically prior to the beginning of a hunt--hence the fox head

who had an incredible collection of vintage dolls from around the world

A great addition to a collection of fine baskets or Native American objects

Unusual Hand-Painted Pottery Vase With Large Birds party ware the shape: I love everythingI find this tall, textured black vase featuring two large, long necked birds (emu?) extremely intriguing. The expressive but subtly rendered brown, yellow and pinkish birds one on each side of the vase at first seem more like abstract passages than figurative forms, but then there they are, heads to the ground amidst green grass and pink flowers. With gold banding at rim and base, the whole piece feels surrealistic an unusual and compelling object and