Lovely Vintage Studio Pottery Weed Vase in Mottled Blue-Purple Glaze early miniature and by the end of

and by the end of the 19th century the magic lantern was overtaken by the cinematograph

and with this terrific hand-painted lettering over old gray paint seeming to have covered some even earlier

but it is this larger one with perfectly scratched and dinged up surface and "CHIPS" hand-painted in red that made me buy these

and though made of wood one really wants to snuggle him

staining/toning as evident

Lovely Vintage Studio Pottery Weed Vase in Mottled Blue-Purple Glaze early miniature and by the end ofI know more of you look to me for folk art and curious things than for pottery, but I'm a great lover of functional studio pottery vessels, and a firm believer in the power of a lovely pot, with weed bud vases my favorite of all forms. And what a pretty and serene one this is, almost perfectly round, feeling like a gulp of sky. In excellent condition, a sort of soft blue purple, with some mottling to the glaze and a bit of variation on one side.