Fabulous Hand-formed Green Glazed Ceramic Face Bowl with Ear Handles Japanese modern but is really great just

but is really great just as an object

given pride of place on its own little shelf in the entry way

where it very well may have been squirreled away for many decades

I believe it to be early 20th century African

Signed Mostrom

Fabulous Hand-formed Green Glazed Ceramic Face Bowl with Ear Handles Japanese modern but is really great justOh, 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;