Seated Woman with Scarf, Vintage Amateur Clay Sculpture ceramic dog with a pontil visible on

with a pontil visible on the bottom

it is just no longer attached to something that would hold it tightly clamped

came from an estate in Newburyport

Very stable

All in excellent

Seated Woman with Scarf, Vintage Amateur Clay Sculpture ceramic dog with a pontil visible onI have a dealer collector friend who refers to amateur ceramic sculpture as "lumpy clay" and collects figures of that ilk. This unglazed clay woman has some of that aspect to her for sure, and was definitely made by an amateur, maybe a young student. But I also find her rather elegant, and wonderfully posed poised with those slab like legs feet revealed at the end of her skirt making it feel as though she's very firmly grounded and forever planted,