Sculptural Large Brown Pottery Pitcher with Long Neck Japanese fan though I might balance it

though I might balance it on a nail to display it on the wall in order to enjoy it everyday or arrange it on a tray on the coffee table

some aging and a bit of light cracking to the deep red lacquer on the bottom and interior

on the short sides of which has been written "color dominoes

what seem to me just perfect proportions

glossy surface that turns black on exposure to air

Sculptural Large Brown Pottery Pitcher with Long Neck Japanese fan though I might balance itI am pretty compelled by this large and heavy studio pottery vessel, which I'd call a pitcher, though certainly an unusual one. I find its form, unfolding across 360 degrees, super evocative, reminding me at once of a horse (and the sculptures of Marino Marini, especially) and a gasoline can! Salt fired I believe (which yielded a few shiny areas), it seems to nod to old salt glazed jugs, and also calls sewer tile sculpture to mind. I think it could