vase

Thrown earthenware with slip-trailed leaf design with mat glazes in green, blue and tan.

Ovoid vasiform with short collar neck; carved with low relief eucalyptus leaves all over, smoothly burnished.

This is a cylindrical ceramic vessel with slightly convex sides and a narrow elongated opening. The surface is covered with off-white glaze and decorated with a blue colored fish motif.

File states that: "Based on other examples of his work, this piece was probably wholly made by Otto, although his wife Vivika's name is carved into the bottom of the piece.

Although unmarked, this is a glaze that is characteristic of Stockton Art Pottery and there is no doubt in my mind but that it is Rekston ware, from the Stockton Art Pottery. HB.