Mid-Century Otagiri, Japan Ribbed Stoneware Budvase with Drippy Marbled Glazing vintage kids drawing Camel: 7" l x 5

Camel: 7" l x 5 3/8" t

which appears to be signed by hand on the far left side of one face

with a little wear around the edges

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

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

Mid-Century Otagiri, Japan Ribbed Stoneware Budvase with Drippy Marbled Glazing vintage kids drawing Camel: 7" l x 5Back 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