Fabulous Vintage Raku Pottery Face Vessel with Wagging Tongue Signed MB russian toy Mounted to a wood panel

Mounted to a wood panel with roughly surfaced

productive life

with one tiny nail hole in the wood at upper right

In addition to some black paint loss

I wish I knew how these two came to be

Fabulous Vintage Raku Pottery Face Vessel with Wagging Tongue Signed MB russian toy Mounted to a wood panelThere's a lot of folk art vessels with faces, jugs and otherwise, that are a little too much for me, but this I really love this one, raku fired, yielding a really rich, deep emerald green, which shows some irridescent blue from one side, more than the other. Playful with his tongue extended and meaning that any liquid poured into the vessel would come spilling out the mouth! but also with a sort of sophistication to it and an almost brutalist