Nod to an Amphora, Perfect Studio Pottery Bud Vase with Wings handbook seeming as if ready for

seeming as if ready for a pretend picnic

Wood chisels proved more practical when he began to carve life-size busts of people and heads of animals from hardwood logs

a few dark marks

drawing size 7" x 6 1/6"

Still looks bright and crisp

Nod to an Amphora, Perfect Studio Pottery Bud Vase with Wings handbook seeming as if ready forI spotted this lovely in a locked case, expecting its concealed price tag to proclaim its unattainability, but happily I was able to bring it home. To my eye really quite a perfect small vessel, transcending time and scale, too feels one part ancient Roman (or Etruscan), one part Arts and Crafts, one part mid century, etc. And I take those "wings" as a nod to the broken handles of ancient amphora so rather post modern, too. With a certain elusiveness