Sculptural 1975 Signed Stoneware Studio Pottery Box ochre in graphite

in graphite

with a little roughness to the wood around the left ear and a faint dark line running horizontally along the back

5 1/16 x 1 1/16 x 3/4a and in good

NY--perhaps its maker

but how not to want to be that mother

Sculptural 1975 Signed Stoneware Studio Pottery Box ochre in graphiteThe fit between the top and bottom on this 1975 studio pottery stoneware box is not 100% perfect, but it is pretty close, and I really love how the shape of the lid, with two "arms" of sorts, interlocks with the lower half. I love the glazing too, almost evoking a face, but feeling brutalist, too, and with unglazed triangle across the front aligning top and bottom. Found in Vermont, and signed, but I can't quite discern the signature. 3 3 8" t x 3 1