Urn-Form Vase

Sunny yellow, with clouds of cream drifting around it.

This urn-form vase is glazed pottery. Sprayed and mottled glazes became popular on decorative pottery in the twentieth century, prized for soft, cloudlike effects that no two pieces repeat exactly. The vase is an ovoid shape with broad shoulders, a small round mouth and a narrower base. Its glossy surface is a bright, saturated yellow, swept with soft-edged bands of speckled cream that wrap diagonally around the body. The interior rim shows the same pale cream. It is 10.25 inches high and 8.5 in diameter.

Good weather, in a portable form.