James Bone, "Ich Liebe" (I am in love), ink drawing, 1955 platypus bowl A pretty pair to set

A pretty pair to set somewhere to admire if not to put the ball to use mending a sock now and then

but now I'm pretty confident it is Japanese

plus a key hole on the front--though there is no longer a key

9" tall with a diameter of 3 1/2" across at base

James Bone, "Ich Liebe" (I am in love), ink drawing, 1955 platypus bowl A pretty pair to setI feel both full of love and full of the idea of love every time I look at this drawing. The way those fingers knit over our man's chest, just below that fabulous bowtie and in between the floating shirt buttons what a perfect distillation of the feel of a heart a'flutter in springtime! The 1955 drawing is an early work by James Frederic Bone (1929 2015), executed in ink (black, which reads more as dark brown now, and red for stripes on the bowtie).