Michael Lambert "Java Jig" Black Glazed Porcelain Sugar Bowl carved stamp holder for pencils

holder for pencils

And it is heavy

The latch on the turtle's back swings open to reveal that it is in fact a box of sorts

Finely made

Michael Lambert "Java Jig" Black Glazed Porcelain Sugar Bowl carved stamp holder for pencilsI love how this 1980s Java Jig porcelain sugar bowl by California ceramicist Michael Lambert (b. 1967) manages to feel totally cartoonish (I keep thinking it is actually going to start signing and dancing) but also pretty classy. Lambert who studied at College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland and the Richmond Art Center, then opened his own studio in 1976 in Santa Cruz created several different series of "dancing" coffee pots, sugar bowls and creamers in