Pair of Peruvian Shipibo Pottery Stacking Bowls with Faces - reserved for SS original artwork great for a gala but

great for a gala but also with jeans and a t-shirt

packing in trees

It was purchased from an estate sale that included a wonderful collection of mid-century and contemporary ceramics from Japan

it and the rectangular one (a shoeshine brush

I’m completely smitten with this little antique stoneware crock-type match holder

Pair of Peruvian Shipibo Pottery Stacking Bowls with Faces - reserved for SS original artwork great for a gala butI just love this pair of Shipibo pottery bowls, each with a Janus like pair of faces, one on either side. Very thin walled, made of earthenware shaped by coil construction, and hand painted with wonderful all over maze like geometric patterns, these are quintessential examples of pottery made by the women of the Shipibo, an Indigenous people who live along the Ucayali River in the Amazon rainforest in Peru. Apparently, the patterns reference the