Featured Potties,welcome to my nightmare!

Hi all. Picked this up recently mainly because it was so ghastly that I just knew it had to be something interesting ! 8 inches high,5 across the base. I *think* its some super old English porcelain ,but that could just be because Ive been bingeing on BBC Antiques Roadshow . Its just so bizarre how could I not bring it home ? So how about it folks,someones artistic vision,or a really bad hobbyist piece ?

 

The only Ainu I'm aware of are the indigenous people of Japan.

 

...and unlikely the Ainu would be walking around nude, it's cold up there!

 

That is weird.

 

There has to be a story in there somewhere.

 

It is so unusual I would have grabbed that in a NY minute. But no idea who/what/where!

Is it a vase?

Maybe show the entire bottom, it's a bit hard to tell what is what from the close ups.

 

Heres the top,it looks like maybe theres a piece missing.

 

Heres the bottom...

 

The story seems to be a mother fighting a bear,notice the dog under the bear ? And moms got a sword. And the bear by the ear! of course,hes got one of her kids ! Ive googled trying to see if this is a legend somewhere but so far no luck.

 

I'd ask Alice...

 

I'm so glad you clarified that Johnny. I had no idea what they were up to!!

 

I'm with Tracey!

 

I don't know what kind of plant has a fish scale trunk like that.

 

stylized palm ?

 

Perhaps the trunk of a cycad palm?

 

That base doesn't say amateur hour. I'd bet that the ceramic part is mold-made, but the painting was done by a 10 year-old! The bear was designed by someone who'd never seen a bear. Unless maybe it's a Beast, and no one's ever seen the Beast. I'd think it was from Revelation, but that talks about a Woman and her Child, not children.

 

A little bump on this item for a fresh set of eyes.