Wonderful Antique Folk Art Stoneware Bottle with Incised Figure and Bird vintahe folk art as with morse code

as with morse code

I love every single thing about this

which I would used as small planters or vases

Pennsylvania 50 years ago and has had her in her personal collection since

I have some feeling they are Japanese

Wonderful Antique Folk Art Stoneware Bottle with Incised Figure and Bird vintahe folk art as with morse codeThis 19th century salt glazed stoneware bottle is one of my favorite things ever, its surface incised with wonderfully naive, open mouthed figure with sticks for arms and legs and an equally wonderful bird, which the figure looks as if he's about to get on the back of and they'll fly away together. So much life and immediacy in the pair of them, which one imagines were etched into the clay with whatever pointy stick or tool was handy. Just the sort of