c. 1500 BCE Small Round Bottomed Terra Cotta Vessel with Handle and Fine Stripe, Plus Small Second Pot hand carved dog a London-born artist who moved

a London-born artist who moved to the San Francisco area in the late 1800s

and also his good intentions: to deliver a painting to the recipient (at first I thought his dad

colorful bird on one branch

and have not found another like it

I have a dealer-collector friend who refers to amateur ceramic sculpture as "lumpy clay" and collects figures of that ilk

c. 1500 BCE Small Round Bottomed Terra Cotta Vessel with Handle and Fine Stripe, Plus Small Second Pot hand carved dog a London-born artist who movedI purchased this from my favorite family run cabinet of curiosities antique shop in New Hampshire, and based on other pieces in the estate collection it came from (including Olmec, Mayan and Peruvian Chancay pieces), I believe is Pre Columbian, from Central or South America, and as shown it was found with an old tag on it noting 1500 BC, which would make it quite an early example. I have done a little looking around to try to more specifically place