Loving Couple on Bench, Unsigned Vintage Clay Sculpture color theory I’m not sure I’d try

I’m not sure I’d try putting this back into use for ice fishing

Darker blue and brown horizontal striations bring your eye up toward the lip and whatever bloom it might display

8 1/8 x 13 1/8

The printing on the box indicate that a shopkeeper would have sold the pieces of lace individually (at 10 cents and then later 15 cents it appears)

Loving Couple on Bench, Unsigned Vintage Clay Sculpture color theory I’m not sure I’d tryThese two! A perfect valentine of a sculpture if I ever saw one, but really just a great thing. Wonderfully modeled, with faces facing, arms crossing, and legs flirting, and with fabulously painterly glazing from their drippy blue features to their green and brown and blue outfits. With incised detailing for buttons, belts and laces in the shoes, and small sculpted breasts on the figure at left, while I think the one at right rather transcends gender.