Unusual Hand-Painted Pottery Vase With Large Birds hand-formed made to be beautiful

made to be beautiful

15ʺW × 1

and they are otherwise in very good condition

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

with the silver plate polishing up nicely

Unusual Hand-Painted Pottery Vase With Large Birds hand-formed made to be beautifulI 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