Blue and White Hand-painted Antique German Stoneware Milk Pitcher 1980s ceramics This beautiful hand-thrown

This beautiful hand-thrown

a member of a family of well-known basket weavers

one can almost picture the loops being made

It feels rather like a modernist's take on the kitschy charm necklace/bracelet

and I believe dates from the 1930s

Blue and White Hand-painted Antique German Stoneware Milk Pitcher 1980s ceramics This beautiful hand-thrownI'm rather obsessed with this old German milk pitcher I love the image of someone painstakingly painting all those rows of little blue triangles, which add up to the most perfectly imperfect surface decoration; just gorgeous. Over the years this pitcher has accumulated a really wonderful patina, too, with a little darkening here and there, which gives it just a fantastic presence and warmth. I can imagine building a whole kitchen even a whole cottage!