Fabulous Hand-formed Green Glazed Ceramic Face Bowl with Ear Handles Japanese modern Signed Mostrom

Signed Mostrom

complete with pin cushion on the underside of the lid

studied and started making pottery together in East Tennesee

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

and I believe these had been made by HIS father

Fabulous Hand-formed Green Glazed Ceramic Face Bowl with Ear Handles Japanese modern Signed MostromOh, 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;