Graceful, Gestural Whittled Form/Figure white glazed bowl with the white looking perhaps

with the white looking perhaps to be tempera paint

She is emblematic of traditional Oaxacan “barro negro” (black clay) pottery - hand-shaped

8 1/2" t x 5 7/8" w x 3/4" t

Because I can never resist a good whimsy

Graceful, Gestural Whittled Form/Figure white glazed bowl with the white looking perhapsJust a little thing, but I think it's so lovely, like a whittled abstraction of a long limbed modern dancer. I don't know anything of who made it or when, but I sure love the effect of the patch of bark left untouched, as if minimally clothing a figure who reaches out from center in every direction. 5 1 2" longest x 4" wide measured on the square. Very good condition.