1940s Japanese Ceramic Hanging Planter with Two-Sided Crane Design deco ceramics a UNESCO world heritage site

a UNESCO world heritage site filled with thousand year old Viking rune stones and burial mounds

with detailed carving on its face

Signed on the bottom

is made of alder wood and signed with a mark and "8J7

1940s Japanese Ceramic Hanging Planter with Two-Sided Crane Design deco ceramics a UNESCO world heritage siteThis spectacular Japanese hand painted ceramic hanging planter, c. 1940s, I found in an antique shop in Jamesport, Missouri, on the day I decided to launch Critical Eye. I had never seen one of these planters before, and found it such a lovely and surprising thing embodying endless treasures out in the world waiting to be found! One side of the planter features a large white crane set against a red sky and blue waves below, while the other features a