Haunting Old Carved (Bedpost?) Doll in Orange and Blue canton Each combines a drawing and

Each combines a drawing and a poem

I love how this 1980s “Java Jig” porcelain sugar bowl by California ceramicist Michael Lambert (b

and in very good condition

or just a great looking little display

Haunting Old Carved (Bedpost?) Doll in Orange and Blue canton Each combines a drawing andI'm guessing that the leather strip threaded through the cheeks of this old primitively carved figure once formed a loop by which it hung, but I found it like this, and think it lends a whole 'nother level of character and drama as it hangs: in part evincing a mustache, but to me feeling rather more like streaming tears. And while it seems this could be a bedpost doll, to me it now has all of the presence of a fetish doll, as if holding otherworldly