Mid-Century Otagiri, Japan Ribbed Stoneware Budvase with Drippy Marbled Glazing vintage kids drawing and especially about that white

and especially about that white horse ethereally floating between earth and sky in front of that bushy tree

and then also on the backsides

Quite old I think and beautifully aged

Great in a grouping

It appears to have been hand-painted and additionally features very fine incising on each of the small "petals" that surround the repeating circular forms with black dots

Mid-Century Otagiri, Japan Ribbed Stoneware Budvase with Drippy Marbled Glazing vintage kids drawing and especially about that whiteBack 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