Nod to an Amphora, Perfect Studio Pottery Bud Vase with Wings girl's drawing This is a lovely old

This is a lovely old ladle or dipper made in two parts

though I have a sense of this painting as indictment of the establishment that he represents

with squarish sliding form rather than a ball inside the "cage

what a marvelous carving

Paper size is 12" x 18"

Nod to an Amphora, Perfect Studio Pottery Bud Vase with Wings girl's drawing This is a lovely oldI spotted this lovely in a locked case, expecting its concealed price tag to proclaim its unattainability, but happily I was able to bring it home. To my eye really quite a perfect small vessel, transcending time and scale, too feels one part ancient Roman (or Etruscan), one part Arts and Crafts, one part mid century, etc. And I take those "wings" as a nod to the broken handles of ancient amphora so rather post modern, too. With a certain elusiveness