Fantastic Antique Hand-carved, Gilded Folk Art Dove folk art reverse glass painting See photos -- there are

See photos -- there are a couple of whitish/grayish areas to the glaze on the interior of the bowl as well as what seems to be a very tiny shard of stoneware stuck to the  surface

There looks to be one old repair to the lid in one spot

as if in motion

Structurally sound

As Herman Hesse wrote in the introduction to this edition (in translation):

Fantastic Antique Hand-carved, Gilded Folk Art Dove folk art reverse glass painting See photos -- there areI had at first taken this as an eagle, but I am now thinking it must be a dove, looking quite beatific with its wide eyes, smallish beak, and most angelic wings, a symbol of peace and also the Holy Spirit. The examples most similar in manner I have found are 19th century French and French Canadian; this one I found it in an off the beaten path spot in Maine, so perhaps the latter. Based on the holes in its flat back I would think either the topper on