Featured Cicada on a small double bowl, by the sea. ??????????

It's 6 inches long by 2 1/4 tall by 2 1/8 high.
It's got a smooth glaze....with paint underneath...
and it's got a bug on it.........

I don't know what it is......or why it is......but it's hard to take yer eyes off of it !!

Known artist...?
Studio whimsical...?

All comments are welcomed....

I'm waiting for the bug to fly away.........

 

similar to this ...
https://www.shabbyvintagechateau.com/listing/1057541738/vintage-french-vallauris-ceramic-salt

 

Maybe @kyratango has some insight on the cicada, brother Komo.

Random info from the web:

The cicada was/is used as a supposed symbol for Aix-en-Provence, France.
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Louis Sicard, a ceramicist based in Aubagne, was asked in 1895 by a wealthy tile manufacturer to make a typical provençal artefact as a gift for its business clients.

He created a paperweight, a cicada sitting on an olive branch bearing Mistral's epigram (pictured top left). It was a huge hit and Sicard adapted it for brooches, vases and cups.
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The Imperial Chinese were fascinated with cicadas and regarded them as a "promise of eternity".
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Cicadas feature prominently on provençal fabrics - les indiennes -, and jumbo pottery versions hang on the façades of houses to which they allegedly attract luck and happiness.

 

The cicada is the symbol of Provence (in general). You see the cicada symbol everywhere in Provence.

A cicada brooch is even worn on the kerchief of Provençal traditional dress:

 

Do they bite ?

 

No, but they sure do make a racket. NOISY suckers.

 

Initials JR, either French faience or somebody with those initials painted it.

 

It's flipping adorable!
You could keep your other bugs in it.