Hands and Bodies, Unsigned Studio Pottery Vessel felted wool attached by wire at the

attached by wire at the shoulders

with some aging to the surface as pictured and a bit of bending to the tab on one side at the very bottom

A friend and fellow antiques dealer was expressing to me just the other day his enamourment with smoke decorated objects

a little melancholy

The back of the envelop with tape cross at center is pretty great looking too

Hands and Bodies, Unsigned Studio Pottery Vessel felted wool attached by wire at theI'm thinking this vessel likely once had a lid, which perhaps also functioned like a small tumbler the tapering of the top and undecorated area on one side seems to suggest that. But I have a feeling it's better this way anyway just a pure field of hands and silhouetted bodies interrupting each other in a sort of endless dance of stop and go (or Mother May I?) The only punctuation are two unpainted hands in low relief 3 4 of the way down either side;