Fabulous Hand-formed Green Glazed Ceramic Face Bowl with Ear Handles vintage watercolor tins It dates to 1964

It dates to 1964

betel chewing was central to social interaction

as documented in photos--largely only noticeable under bright light and magnification

and a flower and vine design around the perimeter of the base

Fabulous Hand-formed Green Glazed Ceramic Face Bowl with Ear Handles vintage watercolor tins It dates to 1964Oh, how I love this bowl! That face! Those ears! I don't know much of anything about it, but have a notion that it may have been made by Cynthia Nuwmark Prelack, the Boston based artist and gallerist at whose estate sale I purchased it. It seems to me to show the influence of South American figurative pottery (Shipibo pottery comes to mind), in which I know from her collection and library she had a great interest, and Southern face jugs as well;