Slab Pottery Plate with Sgraffito Earth Mother and Flowers rounded lid with impossibly fine

with impossibly fine

The wood shows some age and wear

with a brass screw clasp closure

barely visible but meaning that the lip is fragile and the basket is best picked up by the body

like smoke rings

Slab Pottery Plate with Sgraffito Earth Mother and Flowers rounded lid with impossibly fineOh, how I love this plate! Perhaps it has something to do with being a child of the 70s, but really, I think this is pretty timeless! I assume "Power" is the last name of the artist who made this, but it would also be an apt descriptor for the earth mother depicted, whose fingers seem to be doing double duty as both raindrops and rays of sunlight, coaxing the flowers to grow. The toes of her barefoot seem to have root like properties as well; I'd say