Metallic Black Pottery Plate with Painterly Bull, attributed to Marc Hansen Keramik would have made a great

would have made a great accompaniment to that great gift

this handblown glass flask likely once had a leather or perhaps wicker cover over its top half

and with a nice warm patina (I have not touched it)

plus 10 pages of advertisements at the end

I'd guess)

Metallic Black Pottery Plate with Painterly Bull, attributed to Marc Hansen Keramik would have made a greatI'm listing this wonderful studio pottery plate just as 2019 comes to an end, which seems exactly right: "bull_" might characterize a lot about our times, but I see this particular bull as a symbol of fortitude and perseverance, charging forward with strength and resilience into the new decade! And what a terrific bull it is, like a watercolor painting rendered in inky shades of mossy green and brown and cream, which pops against the metallic black