VTG Sgraffito Italian Peasant Village Art Pottery Small Flower Vase Turquoise

Beautiful Rustic MCM Small Turquoise Flower Vase Flared/fan top *Small chip at base (photo 2) & small chip at top (photo 5 or last photo) Sgraffito (in Italian “to scratch”) is a decorating pottery technique produced by applying layers of color on colors (underglazes or colored slips) to leather hard pottery and then scratching off parts of the layer(s) to create contrasting images, patterns and texture and reveal the clay color underneath. Made sometime between 1928 - 1960 in Italy. -Made in Italy -Total height - 5 1/2” -Top width - 5 1/2” -Bottom circumference - 2 3/4” -Bottom of hole to top - 3 1/2”