Fabulous Vintage Raku Pottery Face Vessel with Wagging Tongue Signed MB shaving mug but reads very clearly as

but reads very clearly as a skull

I believe it is German Erzgebirge

it appears it was sent long ago to Mamma (

and a hole in his back for a dowel

Brooklyn NY c

Fabulous Vintage Raku Pottery Face Vessel with Wagging Tongue Signed MB shaving mug but reads very clearly asThere'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