Perfect Double-Sided Blue on White Painted Wooden PONY Sign porridge bowls There is one fairly deep

There is one fairly deep cut in the wood extending from one corner on the top

These two intensively painted clay bowls were made by indigenous Canelos Quichua women in the Oriente (upper Amazonian) region of Ecuador

The turned wooden handle attaches to the head via a post at the center--host to one final bunch of bristles on the brush side

A great rattle to have in hand on New Year's Eve

Quite luminous

Perfect Double-Sided Blue on White Painted Wooden PONY Sign porridge bowls There is one fairly deepThis old PONY sign is, to me, pure perfection. Aesthetically, this alligatored lapis blue against creamy white is about as good as is gets, but then is a made a hundred times better yet for spelling out the word "Pony" which, in my mind, embodies the dreamy dreams of adolescent girls everywhere; visions of a sugar cube and carrot eating, blue ribbon winning, gentle and true, gracefully galloping horse. The hand painted letters march along a horizontal