Hands and Bodies, Unsigned Studio Pottery Vessel felted wool but think it's pretty perfect

but think it's pretty perfect just as it is now

a little melancholy

" with carefully drawn squares next to them for checking

from the Democratic Republic of Congo

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

Hands and Bodies, Unsigned Studio Pottery Vessel felted wool but think it's pretty perfectI'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;