Graceful, Gestural Whittled Form/Figure white glazed bowl 5 7/8" long fully extended

5 7/8" long fully extended

1940s-50s or so I'd guess

8 1/2" t x 5 7/8" w x 3/4" t

She is emblematic of traditional Oaxacan “barro negro” (black clay) pottery - hand-shaped

Because I can never resist a good whimsy

Graceful, Gestural Whittled Form/Figure white glazed bowl 5 7/8" long fully extendedJust a little thing, but I think it's so lovely, like a whittled abstraction of a long limbed modern dancer. I don't know anything of who made it or when, but I sure love the effect of the patch of bark left untouched, as if minimally clothing a figure who reaches out from center in every direction. 5 1 2" longest x 4" wide measured on the square. Very good condition.