This one earns its space on silhouette alone. A long neck rises from a compressed bulb, the whole form held in alternating dark-glazed and textured vertical bands that keep it moving as you walk around it. The deep plum-brown glaze against the raised reserve work gives it a carved feel without losing the discipline of the thrown body.

The maker is not yet securely placed, so we keep the attribution to what the base tells us: signed Lois Granger, 1963. The date does real work. 1963 sits squarely in the post-war studio-pottery moment, when bottle forms and stoneware surfaces were being pushed toward the sculptural. A strong, confident pot whose author is still to be fully traced.