Slab Pottery Plate with Sgraffito Earth Mother and Flowers rounded lid like smoke rings

like smoke rings

and I think was used by him or her quite a bit

gouache on paper

with a brass screw clasp closure

which features what I believe is a Garden of Eden scene in bas relief

Slab Pottery Plate with Sgraffito Earth Mother and Flowers rounded lid like smoke ringsOh, 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