Fabulous Vintage Raku Pottery Face Vessel with Wagging Tongue Signed MB shaving mug but I'd be much more

but I'd be much more inclined to use for display than for house-painting

or just feel good to hold on to--so I thought I might start occasionally listing a group of few little things together as one thing

it appears it was sent long ago to Mamma (

I believe it is German Erzgebirge

and a hole in his back for a dowel

Fabulous Vintage Raku Pottery Face Vessel with Wagging Tongue Signed MB shaving mug but I'd be much moreThere's a lot of folk art vessels with faces, jugs and otherwise, that are a little too much for me, but this I really love this one, raku fired, yielding a really rich, deep emerald green, which shows some irridescent blue from one side, more than the other. Playful with his tongue extended and meaning that any liquid poured into the vessel would come spilling out the mouth! but also with a sort of sophistication to it and an almost brutalist