Lovely Vintage Studio Pottery Weed Vase in Mottled Blue-Purple Glaze early miniature Good condition with a great

Good condition with a great patina

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

7 7/8" t x 4" w x 3 7/8" w

I really love the look of these

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

Lovely Vintage Studio Pottery Weed Vase in Mottled Blue-Purple Glaze early miniature Good condition with a greatI 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.