Metallic Black Pottery Plate with Painterly Bull, attributed to Marc Hansen Keramik and with a nice warm

and with a nice warm patina (I have not touched it)

cut and punctured by hand

plus 10 pages of advertisements at the end

holding the pen

Metallic Black Pottery Plate with Painterly Bull, attributed to Marc Hansen Keramik and with a nice warmI'm listing this wonderful studio pottery plate just as 2019 comes to an end, which seems exactly right: "bull_" might characterize a lot about our times, but I see this particular bull as a symbol of fortitude and perseverance, charging forward with strength and resilience into the new decade! And what a terrific bull it is, like a watercolor painting rendered in inky shades of mossy green and brown and cream, which pops against the metallic black