Sewer Tile Folk Art Bust with Great Face studio pottery bowls if not earlier

if not earlier

While one sees more elaborate examples than this one

of Worcester County

A nicely carved one too

Quite sturdy and sound

Sewer Tile Folk Art Bust with Great Face studio pottery bowls if not earlierA wonderfully folky example of sewer pipe sewer tile pottery, this guy would have been sculpted by a factory worker at the end of the day using leftover clay. One sees some sewer tile pieces that were made using molds, but it's the hand sculpted ones that I love, which were made as whimsies of sorts, sometimes as gifts and sometimes, as I understand it, as (often humorously exaggerated) portraits of bosses or co workers. This guy looks to me as if in