Unusual Hand-Painted Pottery Vase With Large Birds hand-formed holder for pencils

holder for pencils

and they are otherwise in very good condition

who told her husband she “liked mice”

the basket's exterior is a variegated honey color with faded red medallion and red and blue striping

Unusual Hand-Painted Pottery Vase With Large Birds hand-formed holder for pencilsI find this tall, textured black vase featuring two large, long necked birds (emu?) extremely intriguing. The expressive but subtly rendered brown, yellow and pinkish birds one on each side of the vase at first seem more like abstract passages than figurative forms, but then there they are, heads to the ground amidst green grass and pink flowers. With gold banding at rim and base, the whole piece feels surrealistic an unusual and compelling object and