Mid-Century Otagiri, Japan Ribbed Stoneware Budvase with Drippy Marbled Glazing quilt design including dramatic cantilevering and top-heavy

including dramatic cantilevering and top-heavy towers

and craquelure particularly visible on the upper right portion of the painting (all as detailed)

which feels as if just peeking out for a moment before retreating back inside

Very good vintage condition overall and structurally very sound with some scattered lost/split stitches as pictured

made all the better by lots off scrapes and wear

Mid-Century Otagiri, Japan Ribbed Stoneware Budvase with Drippy Marbled Glazing quilt design including dramatic cantilevering and top-heavyBack in the day, Otagiri, Japan made some pretty good pieces, like this one I think, which I first took as a two piece studio pottery vessel (it is in fact all one piece) and which has a sort of a mid century scandanavian feel to me. Nice weight, good earthy feel, with a deeply ribbed body that caused the pretty marbling of the drippy glazing. Perfect for one stem and I think would be the exact right vase for one small flowering branch or, even