Slab Pottery Plate with Sgraffito Earth Mother and Flowers serving She refers to the women

She refers to the women in sculptures such as this one as storytellers--mouths open

In these parts

14 5/8 across at lip

and the ice below

Slab Pottery Plate with Sgraffito Earth Mother and Flowers serving She refers to the womenOh, 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