Metallic Black Pottery Plate with Painterly Bull, attributed to Marc Hansen beveridge pottery vase and I think just wonderful

and I think  just wonderful

4 3/4" across at lip

And the extraordinary skill

dates it to prior to 1940 and corresponds to a specific master silversmith

Metallic Black Pottery Plate with Painterly Bull, attributed to Marc Hansen beveridge pottery vase and I think just wonderfulI'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