Unusual Hand-Painted Pottery Vase With Large Birds hand-formed Symbolizing creation

Symbolizing creation

with a 5" diameter opening

with just a bit of loss of gold on the rim around the base

with the silver plate polishing up nicely

which included a wonderful collection of mid-century and contemporary ceramics

Unusual Hand-Painted Pottery Vase With Large Birds hand-formed Symbolizing creationI 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