Wonderful Antique Folk Art Stoneware Bottle with Incised Figure and Bird vintahe folk art Missing the tip of one

Missing the tip of one foot

I have some feeling they are Japanese

I trusted my eye and gut on this beautiful small matte blue-gray glazed vessel

I love every single thing about this

Wonderful Antique Folk Art Stoneware Bottle with Incised Figure and Bird vintahe folk art Missing the tip of oneThis 19th century salt glazed stoneware bottle is one of my favorite things ever, its surface incised with wonderfully naive, open mouthed figure with sticks for arms and legs and an equally wonderful bird, which the figure looks as if he's about to get on the back of and they'll fly away together. So much life and immediacy in the pair of them, which one imagines were etched into the clay with whatever pointy stick or tool was handy. Just the sort of