Watchtower with American Flag, Poignant Old Real Photo Postcard swedish Everything about this lovely stoneware

Everything about this lovely stoneware bowl makes me believe it is a piece by highly collectible mid-century studio potter Frank C

which I took the liberty of mending with transparent archival tape

I know people get very excited about antique butter molds

and a few small tears

where if arranged a certain way they appear as if to be spooning

Watchtower with American Flag, Poignant Old Real Photo Postcard swedish Everything about this lovely stonewareI tend to look at everything these days as metaphors, and certainly do this one a watchtower with windows on all sides (one might think of it as a surveillance station) flying an American flag. So it seems these days. And yet, the masking of the photo, creating the wide, soft cornered frame around the image, makes it seem as if the watchtower itself was glimpsed through some sort of window or scope and thus reverses the order of things: the surveilled