Penelope Penzo collectible LARGE ceramic earthenware African pottery teapot

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Penelope Penzo collectible LARGE ceramic earthenware African pottery teapot:
$55.00

LargePenzo Pottery Teapot Hand painted 2000 in Zimbabwe in bright bold colors with Zebras Elephants Hippo and more. Hand Signed Beautiful piecedoes have crazing throughout,see all pictures.Shipping cost depends on from my zip code 32776 to yours? you can go to USPS.com to calculate or just send me your zip code and I will tell you. I do not change any handling only actual shipping
Penny Vincent not only contributes living, highly functional pieces of original, one of a kind Africanartwork, but also employs close to a hundred people while a portion of proceeds from the sale of Penzo is given to benefit wildlife conservation and education of native Africans to observe and report corruption, poaching and other abuses that continue to endanger their animals and preserves.

Penny, a native Zimbabwean, grew up on a farm near Masvingo. As many young girls experience, she had an insatiable lust to travel the World and by becoming a critical/intensive care nurse, she was able to fulfill that dream. Penny has traveled the globe extensively the better part of two decades and lived on all the Earth’s continents, relocating to a new city usually two years after arriving. \"Wanderlust\" is how she herself describes it. Since her nursing skills were coveted the World over, she was never out of a job or exotic destination. While working in Saudi Arabia on a nursing stint, an accident resulted in Penny smashing her vertebrae and left her confined to a hospital bed for several months.Bored, restless and longing for her Zimbabwe, this ever-energetic person took up painting during her confinement, experimenting with oil paints on some simple, cheap white plates from the local department store. Being homesick, she tried to bring Africa a little closer to her bare hospital room by creating her beloved homeland in sceneries on these plates. Penzo was born! Soon there were no plates left anywhere in the area and her creations ended up more in the hands of her friends than on the wall in her room. The moment she began to paint what she knew so well her native Africa, she realized that she wanted to return home as soon as she was physically able.Back home in Zimbabwe, Penny acquired assistance to bring her work to the next step so she enlisted the help of some of the local unemployed citizens in Victoria Falls. She sought only untrained artists and taught them to create her own designs and images. In this beautiful village overlooking the mighty Victoria Falls surrounded with an abundance of wildlife and trained by Penny, it didn’t take long before these artists became more proficient and began to express their own inspirations.She than went to a local facility for the physically handicapped. They overcame the restrictions of their handicap to produce the white ware on which the artists would paint these wonderful pieces of high quality and many are now artists themselves. After asking a few friends to help her set up at local attractions and the airport to sell Penzo the rest they say is history.
10\" wide approx. 7\" tall