Huge Early Yellowware Bowl with Old Make Do Wire (and Remnants of Leather) Repair yellow and white our subject looks a bit

our subject looks a bit as if she might be a CPR demonstration dummy

Later in life

as they were pretty dear

just missing a couple of bits of the white painted wood

Huge Early Yellowware Bowl with Old Make Do Wire (and Remnants of Leather) Repair yellow and white our subject looks a bitA big, beautiful early yellowware bowl, 19th century (unmarked, un banded, un footed, i. e. the very best sort I think) made special by a fat old wire repair along the lip, backed by what I believe is a now much hardened piece of leather on the outside, which looks to be the remnant of what was once a strip that ran all along the crack, leaving a stain behind. I find it all very beautiful, with the character of the repair perfectly matching the