Sculptural Large Brown Pottery Pitcher with Long Neck carved wooden rabbit 7" tall x 8" wide

7" tall x 8" wide

I purchased this piece from an estate sale in Newton

) but best I think just as an interesting sculptural object

Those teeth

and I think its lines are just terrific

Sculptural Large Brown Pottery Pitcher with Long Neck carved wooden rabbit 7" tall x 8" wideI 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