Faceted Studio Pottery Vase with Light Blue Animals by Jeffrey Lipton color drawing The painting

The painting

and roughly translating to the English expression pork barrel) was an illustrated French weekly satirical magazine with anarchist political leanings that was chiefly produced between 1901 and 1912

2 1/4" wide when folded

though I am uncertain of its age

Faceted Studio Pottery Vase with Light Blue Animals by Jeffrey Lipton color drawing The paintingSuch a curious vase, and I think quite a charming one, with these highly stylized stacked animals on opposite sides rendered in matte baby blue. Hand thrown then trimmed and I believe salt fired, the stoneware vessel itself feels Japanese, but then this giraffe, pig, bird, and I'm not sure what (!) turn it into something else entirely! I've just learned this piece is a quintessential example of the recent work of Bowdoinham, Maine based ceramicist