please ID a very old vase, with particular pattern

You're forgetting the healing power and wisdom that is bestowed on anyone who takes it home and loves it.

 

It's a fairly recent (last 10-15 years or so) import from Mexico, made for the decorator trade. Rather hastily thrown, trimmed, and decorated on a potter's wheel (the incised lines often overlap, and the paint isn't applied within the outlined shapes), the pottery was sold through Pier 1 and similar outlets. It is "artificially aged" to appear old, but isn't.

Finding "faces" and other forms in our surroundings seems to be a special talent, some people have it, some don't. I'm hooked on seeing bird and animal forms in clouds. And faces on the textured bathroom wall. It's a rather harmless pastime, but not one to take too seriously.

As to the bottom of your pot, I see a reclining dog, not a face. Although there is something of a Easter Island moai nose poking up out of the sand....

 

Wow thanks a lot for the reply, one question forgive me What it means - the pottery was sold through Pier 1 and similar outlets.-?
Who is Pier 1

 

Pier 1 is a chain of stores in the U.S. that sells imported items for decorating your home. All modern objects, made to look interestingly foreign and sometimes artificially aged.

 

Ahh ok thanks

 

How you know that it comes from Pier1 ?
Could you forward me a reference ? Just to understand it, thanks .
I bought in Rome, next auction house of Antiques.

 

A simple history of the company,they did have stores in Europe .... https://www.pier1.com/pr_history.html

 

@Taupou
which part of Mexico these vases are made in ?

@April07
please, what do you think about it ?

Thank you both in advance