Soulful Gold and Blue Painted Hand-sculpted Clay Eagle! tramp art It weighs about 3 1/2

It weighs about 3 1/2 pounds

This is a terrific turquoise glazed Bennington Potters mug and snack plate set

and I believe based on a popular advertising image of the time

and took some liberties in giving the flag alternating blue with red stripes too

the splint wrapping the lip

Soulful Gold and Blue Painted Hand-sculpted Clay Eagle! tramp art It weighs about 3 1/2If ever there were an empathetic eagle, I think this may one himsquawking very loudly at me to bring him home! I assume made by a kid in art class, though perhaps by a folk artist with a lot of heart, hes got a brilliant humanity, with these black painted eyes with deep holes for the pupils at their centers, and then exuberantly incised lines for feathers all over. Perfectly painted gold with, rather inexplicably, a slightly metallic blue around his