Beautiful Antique Terra Cotta Vessel with Handle glass lantern slide box as it is here now

as it is here now

but I am not 100% if horsehair or other) darkening beautifully toward the ends

The background is a pale aqua

substantial scale

it is hard to open quite all the way flat

Beautiful Antique Terra Cotta Vessel with Handle glass lantern slide box as it is here nowI really don't know much about this pot, which I purchased from artist Richard Fleischner, in whose studio it lived alongside many beautiful old vessels from around the world. I think it is quite an old one, with gorgeous color and surface and utilitarian form, I believe most likely made for cooking. My guess is 19th c. Mediterranean. I'm pricing it just based on its beauty and much under valuing it at that! 9" t x 7 1 2" across at handle x 6 3 8" d;