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

what seem to me just perfect proportions

glossy surface that turns black on exposure to air

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

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