Pair of Canelos Quichia Ecuadorian Pottery Bowls with Face and Bird tiny animals he attended night class at

he attended night class at the National College of Art and Design

A perfect little vase for the bedside table or powder room - so pretty

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Presumed mid-century and signed on the bottom

Pair of Canelos Quichia Ecuadorian Pottery Bowls with Face and Bird tiny animals he attended night class atThese two wonderful drinking bowls were made by indigenous Canelos Quichua women in the Oriente (upper Amazonian) region of Ecuador, probably in the 1970s or 80s. Between the star shaped face of the larger, with its eyebrows, nose, and mouth (with teeth!) sculpted in relief; the bird butterfly at the center of the smaller; and the wonderfully fine graphic patterns on both, I am completely charmed. No wonder that the pottery of this region is regarded