but I have just learned it is a mid- to late-19th century water jug from San Luis Potosi
excepting one fine split in the wood near the top that was at one point (I am guessing long ago) glued tightly back together and is barely noticeable
but it definitely has a mid-century brutalist feel
constructed of clay slabs cut into the shape of roosters
So when I spotted this and one other of her prints at an antiques shop
The Living Arts: A Portfolio, Issues No. 1 and No. 3, Ed. Lucien Vogel, 1921-22 sgraffito plate but I have just learnedThese are rare copies of the 1st and 3rd issues of the forward looking and very exquisitely produced The Living Arts: A Portfolio Reflecting the Literary and Artistic Taste of Our Time, edited by Lucien Vogel and published in NY, Paris, and London, 1921 22, by Conde Nast. (Six issues of the bi monthly publication were produced in total before publication ceased in 1922.) Id say pretty much every page of this beautiful unbound and uncut letterpress