Fabulous Vintage Raku Pottery Face Vessel with Wagging Tongue Signed MB makie Apart from the missing bit

Apart from the missing bit on its back

and hardly needs an incline to do so

it would be a nice one to wear as a pendant

I might keep this one on the desk topping a pile of papers--perhaps bills to be paid

14" wide x 10" deep  x 5 1/2" tall

Fabulous Vintage Raku Pottery Face Vessel with Wagging Tongue Signed MB makie Apart from the missing bitThere'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