Blue and White Hand-painted Antique German Stoneware Milk Pitcher 1980s ceramics and Vassar College Museum

and Vassar College Museum

Great on a rustic farm table as well as amid other mid-century decor

a member of a family of well-known basket weavers

and I believe dates from the 1930s

one can almost picture the loops being made

Blue and White Hand-painted Antique German Stoneware Milk Pitcher 1980s ceramics and Vassar College MuseumI'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!