Huge Early Yellowware Bowl with Old Make Do Wire (and Remnants of Leather) Repair yellow and white as they were pretty dear

as they were pretty dear

our subject looks a bit as if she might be a CPR demonstration dummy

with terrific patina

all constructed of

spray paint on masonite

Huge Early Yellowware Bowl with Old Make Do Wire (and Remnants of Leather) Repair yellow and white as they were pretty dearA big, beautiful early yellowware bowl, 19th century (unmarked, un banded, un footed, i. e. the very best sort I think) made special by a fat old wire repair along the lip, backed by what I believe is a now much hardened piece of leather on the outside, which looks to be the remnant of what was once a strip that ran all along the crack, leaving a stain behind. I find it all very beautiful, with the character of the repair perfectly matching the