Hand Sculpted Ceramic Bluebird, Signed wood and goat hair I'm in love with this

I'm in love with this vase

so that I'd see it morning and night

9 3/4" long x 3 3/4" tall x 3/16" thick

with a wool weft and cotton warp

Hand Sculpted Ceramic Bluebird, Signed wood and goat hair I'm in love with thisI haven't been able to find out much of anything about this wonderful little baby bluebird, which I found at the estate sale of an actress and philanthropist in Brookline, MA, whose many fine and interesting things reinforce my believe that this is something pretty special! It bears some resemblance to the birds produced by Stangl Pottery in the mid 20th century, but I think is much better far looser (it looks positively abstract from certain angles),