Kazimierz WOŹNIAK (1909-1991), Vase - Hutsul bottle

Pottery clay, light cream colored off-white (engobe), metal oxide-based ceramic paints, lead glaze;
minor rubbing and losses of glaze and engobe at the edge of the neck;
height 20 cm, base diameter 14 cm; signature engraved in clay under glaze, between the bottom legs: 1961 / Olawa (?)/ WK (barely legible).
Kazimierz Wozniak, workshop in Olawa (Lower Silesia), postwar period (1961).
Bottle (for liquor) with a flattened circular body, on 4 legs, with a short profiled neck opening at the edge, with two handles on the sides for threading a hanging strap Decorated with ornaments with rhytic contours; on the two circular flat sides, the motif of a deer among stylized flower shoots and a flower shoot with two birds; the sides with geometric ornaments. The product of a Hutsul potter, Kazimierz Wozniak, who continued the ceramic traditions from Pokucie in Olawa, Lower Silesia, after World War II, where he was resettled with his family.