Fabulous Hand-formed Green Glazed Ceramic Face Bowl with Ear Handles Japanese modern I'm finding it very difficult

I'm finding it very difficult to resist scooping up old tools with wonderfully worn wooden handles

where it very well may have been squirreled away for many decades

Signed Mostrom

and I believe these had been made by HIS father

I believe it to be early 20th century African

Fabulous Hand-formed Green Glazed Ceramic Face Bowl with Ear Handles Japanese modern I'm finding it very difficultOh, how I love this bowl! That face! Those ears! I don't know much of anything about it, but have a notion that it may have been made by Cynthia Nuwmark Prelack, the Boston based artist and gallerist at whose estate sale I purchased it. It seems to me to show the influence of South American figurative pottery (Shipibo pottery comes to mind), in which I know from her collection and library she had a great interest, and Southern face jugs as well;