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

It dates to 1964

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

I think it probably dates to the 1940s or so and came from a factory in Massachusetts or New Hamphire

shorter than one typically sees

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

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;