Fabulous Hand-formed Green Glazed Ceramic Face Bowl with Ear Handles Japanese modern I believe it to be

I believe it to be early 20th century African

I'd guess)

and I believe these had been made by HIS father

but is really great just as an object

Fabulous Hand-formed Green Glazed Ceramic Face Bowl with Ear Handles Japanese modern I believe it to beOh, how I love this bowl! That face! Those ears! I don't know much of anything about it, but have a notion that it may have been made by Cynthia Nuwmark Prelack, the Boston based artist and gallerist at whose estate sale I purchased it. It seems to me to show the influence of South American figurative pottery (Shipibo pottery comes to mind), in which I know from her collection and library she had a great interest, and Southern face jugs as well;