Great Little Hand-formed, Pressed Pattern Blue Pottery Bud Vase figure with heart painted whiskers and smiling red

painted whiskers and smiling red mouth

and a figure in a dress near the bottom--and

I don't think photos fully do justice to this really lovely

Bluck in Bermuda

Great Little Hand-formed, Pressed Pattern Blue Pottery Bud Vase figure with heart painted whiskers and smiling redThis little vase is just big enough for a few stems (a couple of sprigs of red berries would be perfect in it right now), but it's really a lovely one, which someone put a lot of care into. The body is densely decorated all over with pressed patterns, kind of like hatch marks but also a bit evoking Asian characters, adding to its Japanese feel. The glaze on the body reads a deep green blue black, then shows drippy brighter blue on the neck and