Sculptural Large Brown Pottery Pitcher with Long Neck carved wooden rabbit the incised stripes and fin

the incised stripes and fin details

Another wonderful old painter /duster brush

He is about the gentlest young boxer one might envision

I purchased this piece from an estate sale in Newton

Sculptural Large Brown Pottery Pitcher with Long Neck carved wooden rabbit the incised stripes and finI 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