Blue Brown Mid-Century Stoneware Pottery Pitcher fun pillows a version of which is

a version of which is featured in the collection of the Smithsonian Museum

Around the perimeter of each canister

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

Dating from the 1920s-30s

which I return again and again as a marvelous tool for observing and thinking about my surroundings

Blue Brown Mid-Century Stoneware Pottery Pitcher fun pillows a version of which isI'm a huge fan of the pitcher as a form (plus a pretty pitcher can always double as a vase), and to my eye this stoneware pitcher is about as lovely as they come. Beautifully thrown, with a perfectly formed slab handle, terrific checkerboard texture around its upper half, and nuanced blue glazing through which the brown clay body shows, it really elevates anything you might put in it, and near it! Nice and weighty, it feels terrific in the hand, too.