Fabulous Vintage Raku Pottery Face Vessel with Wagging Tongue Signed MB shaving mug This just struck me as

This just struck me as a curious thing

I believe it is German Erzgebirge

from the details of his cap and upturned collar to the cane she holds

and while I can't really argue the need for something like this

but reads very clearly as a skull

Fabulous Vintage Raku Pottery Face Vessel with Wagging Tongue Signed MB shaving mug This just struck me asThere'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