Featured Large heavy pottery vase

This one is a whopper at 20" tall. Very heavy. Glaze is textured with lots of burst bubbles. Bottom number is hand incised into the clay. Found in a local central IL thrift store for very little. Have had no luck in finding a maker for this. Any ideas?

 

Good heavens, that's a big 'un. The incised numbers look almost chiseled in.

 

It's begging for flowers with long stems, like gladiolii.

 

Perhaps a florist type vase they sell with the flowers. Seems fairly rough. Nice one to really use

 

It looks like kind of "Organic Ceramic Vase".
/Glaze is textured with lots of burst bubbles./ Maybe there is some fiber?
.... Plaster....

 

Thanks for the comments so far. I, also, am getting a garden pottery vibe to this. Heavier than most home use vases. Wonder if it was used in a comercial establishment. Not your typical vase.

 

Or a church, if there were two of them.

 

I didn't want to write about, but I also was thinking it is possible a vase for Calla flowers for funeral for church. Vase a kind of for one time to use and after finish service this vase just would be left outside with flowers.

 

Not your typical one-time use florist vase but could see someplace like a funeral home keeping one or more of these for display use. Typically, one-time use vases were lined wicker, paper mache, or metal. Can't say I have seen heavy pottery ones like this.

 

Probably you are right. I was thinking so, because when my Mam passed away 4 years ago (tomorrow will be 4 years), I have ordered urn from one company and they make them by order and it take several weeks to get it, from 2 to 4 weeks depend on design you will pick. We needed urn only for few day, but anyway we picked one for $800. It was beautiful urn, but we were in shock what we got! Instead of beautiful glazed ceramic urn, we got one kind made from Plaster + cement + send, not completely pained, not completely glazed and the surface was similar like this white vase and we also had a number at the bottom (number of model we picked). Of course we returned it back. But it was so stressful. So sad.

 

We buried my dad's ashes in a black plastic box. He wasn't there and would have thrown a fit at spending $$$ on a fancy urn . (Depression kid - kept used nails .)

 

After the problem with Urn, lately, my husband said: "I will pick my own urn and will buy it ahead. I will pick the good one fancy and expensive." And then he has added: "Take my ash to the cemetery in Arkansas, do you remember there is some pond right next to my parents? And then throw my ash to that pond." I looked him and said: "Are you crazy?! How do you think I will go alone to the cemetery with your ash? It is scary. Also I don't want to be arrested for that." He said: "Take with you my grandsons, they will be happy do it with you." But then I have looked at him and said: "Excuse me!!! Why are you going to buy expensive urn, if we won't use it? Save the money for widow."

 

I'm signed up to either be a medical cadaver or a corpse for the Body Farm - my old university has a Forensics major and they can always use a piece of meatware to mess with. I think they cremate the leftovers once they're done.

 

But are not you afraid if one day there will be shortage with cadaver and students will come direct to you, before "you will be ready"?

 

before you die....swallow a key !!!