Hand-Thrown and Sculpted Studio Pottery Hanging Stoneware Planter With Female Face soapstone trinket box With a lion

With a lion

I am completely charmed

Darker blue and brown horizontal striations bring your eye up toward the lip and whatever bloom it might display

and is signed "Graf" on the bottom

and I think was used by him or her quite a bit

Hand-Thrown and Sculpted Studio Pottery Hanging Stoneware Planter With Female Face soapstone trinket box With a lionI picture ivy streaming down the sides of this marvelous hand thrown and sculpted stoneware planter as it hangs from a high hook in a plant filled sunroom. Vintage 1970s I would guess, perhaps one should wear a caftan while watering to complete the scene! It certainly puts me in that sort of an earth goddess y mood, which suggests perhaps she is actually better used for growing herbs to complete dishes gleaned from Moosewood or my favorite, the