Pair of Canelos Quichia Ecuadorian Pottery Bowls with Face and Bird Buddhist making the vase feel akin

making the vase feel akin to a three-dimensional woodblock print

Victoria and Albert Museum London

the other orange/peach--and though I am offering them for sale separately

and literally ran across the room to claim her

and there is one crack in the exterior red cap of one of the thermoses

Pair of Canelos Quichia Ecuadorian Pottery Bowls with Face and Bird Buddhist making the vase feel akinThese two wonderful drinking bowls were made by indigenous Canelos Quichua women in the Oriente (upper Amazonian) region of Ecuador, probably in the 1970s or 80s. Between the star shaped face of the larger, with its eyebrows, nose, and mouth (with teeth!) sculpted in relief; the bird butterfly at the center of the smaller; and the wonderfully fine graphic patterns on both, I am completely charmed. No wonder that the pottery of this region is regarded