Large Hand-thrown Blue on White Stoneware Pitcher with Beautiful Staple Repair illustrations and rather poignant feeling one

and rather poignant feeling one now

but rather as a flawed one

5 1/8" tall overall

which I first took as a two piece studio pottery vessel (it is in fact all one piece) and which has a sort of a mid-century scandanavian feel to me

I am not sure the maker

Large Hand-thrown Blue on White Stoneware Pitcher with Beautiful Staple Repair illustrations and rather poignant feeling oneThis is the second large blue and white glazed stoneware pitcher with big, beautiful staple repair I've found in the past few months, which makes me wonder if someone around here had specifically collected blue and white staple repaired pitchers in my experience they're not at all common to find! Good fortune, anyway, as I love these fat gold staples against the white, and in combination with the pitcher form, and in relationship to the hand painted