Unusual Hand-Painted Pottery Vase With Large Birds Mexican pottery just amazed by the fineness

just amazed by the fineness of their incised decoration

with at least half a dozen different browns incorporated

but I certainly believe in infusing small joys into daily life wherever possible

and the ice below

Unusual Hand-Painted Pottery Vase With Large Birds Mexican pottery just amazed by the finenessI find this tall, textured black vase featuring two large, long necked birds (emu?) extremely intriguing. The expressive but subtly rendered brown, yellow and pinkish birds one on each side of the vase at first seem more like abstract passages than figurative forms, but then there they are, heads to the ground amidst green grass and pink flowers. With gold banding at rim and base, the whole piece feels surrealistic an unusual and compelling object and