Wonderful Antique Folk Art Stoneware Bottle with Incised Figure and Bird Magritte pipe making it feel like nine

making it feel like nine individual portraits while also very expressive of their relationships with one another

and is in very good vintage condition

but this is the first I've come across repaired with string

with great Western-inspired fonts and lasso

Wonderful Antique Folk Art Stoneware Bottle with Incised Figure and Bird Magritte pipe making it feel like nineThis 19th century salt glazed stoneware bottle is one of my favorite things ever, its surface incised with wonderfully naive, open mouthed figure with sticks for arms and legs and an equally wonderful bird, which the figure looks as if he's about to get on the back of and they'll fly away together. So much life and immediacy in the pair of them, which one imagines were etched into the clay with whatever pointy stick or tool was handy. Just the sort of