Wonderful Antique Folk Art Stoneware Bottle with Incised Figure and Bird vintahe folk art I really like the graphics

I really like the graphics on these old Royal Cauldron transferware plates

Missing the tip of one foot

I have some feeling they are Japanese

and I'm really rather obsessed with it as very resolved feeling

Wonderful Antique Folk Art Stoneware Bottle with Incised Figure and Bird vintahe folk art I really like the graphicsThis 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