Slab Pottery Plate with Sgraffito Earth Mother and Flowers for the kitchen table who is Finnish but lives

who is Finnish but lives in Germany

There are a few small tears in the paper and a bit of wear along the edges

it is beautiful

with the popcorn beads ranging from approximately 1 to 1 1/2" in diameter

worry dolls were traditionally made for children to tell their fears and worries

Slab Pottery Plate with Sgraffito Earth Mother and Flowers for the kitchen table who is Finnish but livesOh, 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