It's very nice, but I think it's modern and Chinese. Looks like 2 pieces joined by glue... the kind of thing you'd find at a place like...
What you are showing is called crazing - cracks in the glaze but not the body. It's quite common in ceramics. I disagree with AJ that it's...
Must weigh a ton.
Maybe call it a pitcher/jug/vase. I think this type of piece was primarily decorative, not utilitarian, so there's a lot of latitude in what to...
I don't think anything with that "decorative use only" tag is old.
The technique is called Raku. I'm guessing the colors are much more metallic than they appear in the photo? Almost iridescent?
Scottish isn't out of the question. Holes like that are usually a vent hole - but they don't go all the way through. It looks like it might...
In Worcester Porcelain 1751-1790, The Zorensky Collection, Simon Spero and John Sandon write that the Blue Bordered Wares were introduced c1780.
good use of the colors.
Does that hole in the stump go all the way through? It has a Staffordshire sort of look to me... a bit naive... but I would guess Continental.
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