Ceramic Elephant Vessel--or is it a Dinosaur??! folk carving Very sweet

Very sweet

I think it’s quite a beauty of a jewelry box

is wonderfully worn with a fantastic reddish-brown patina and a great straight handle

and often several of them together

Ceramic Elephant Vessel--or is it a Dinosaur??! folk carving Very sweetWhat I think is so brilliant about this little sculptured ceramic vessel with handle is that if you look at it one way, it's an elephant, with long and curving trunk, but if you look at it another way, the tip of that trunk is actually the small head of a long necked dinosaur! This little creation just makes me smile every time I look at it. I'm not quite sure how it was intended to be used, as the trunk is not a spout, but I think it would make a