Haunting Old Carved (Bedpost?) Doll in Orange and Blue canton super thin walled raku vase

super thin walled raku vase

I love how this 1980s “Java Jig” porcelain sugar bowl by California ceramicist Michael Lambert (b

But he's stable and sits sturdy and quite a character

I'd guess fairly early 20th century

Haunting Old Carved (Bedpost?) Doll in Orange and Blue canton super thin walled raku vaseI'm guessing that the leather strip threaded through the cheeks of this old primitively carved figure once formed a loop by which it hung, but I found it like this, and think it lends a whole 'nother level of character and drama as it hangs: in part evincing a mustache, but to me feeling rather more like streaming tears. And while it seems this could be a bedpost doll, to me it now has all of the presence of a fetish doll, as if holding otherworldly