Sculptural, Stony Vintage Japanese Ikebana Vase Burkina Faso What made me fall in

What made me fall in love with it is the construction

in an old gold-painted wood frame that I think suits it perfectly: 8 5/8" x 7 1/4"

which itself bore the influence of Staffordshire and Rockingham lions from the mid-18th c

To my eye such beautiful things

so would think this dates to the first quarter of the 20th c

Sculptural, Stony Vintage Japanese Ikebana Vase Burkina Faso What made me fall inI havent been buying a lot of pottery of late, but always find myself doing so in spring, when one wants to be surrounded with as many cut flowers and sprigs of green as possible! This small vessel reads as much as a sculpture as an ikebana vase to me, quite satisfying with nothing at all in it, but also an excellent stage for all sorts of arrangements. With a wonderfully grainy, stony surface, and signed on the bottom with what I believe is a