Unusual Hand-Painted Pottery Vase With Large Birds hand-formed made to be beautiful

made to be beautiful

15ʺW × 1

who told her husband she “liked mice”

holder for pencils

the basket's exterior is a variegated honey color with faded red medallion and red and blue striping

Unusual Hand-Painted Pottery Vase With Large Birds hand-formed made to be beautifulI 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