Turquoise Glazed Pottery Pig

My first thoughts was a hobbyist piece but woukd like to hear other opinions.
Thanks

 

That would be my first thought too but if you look up razorback hogs, there are some pretty ugly ones out there. Maybe an Arkansas pottery?

 

Art student project ?

 

It's exactly the sort of things we made for Mother's day decades ago at school, my mother receive a fish ashtray, but has never smoked…
And my brother who has two left hands made something between Edgar Allan Poe and Godzilla in the same way earlier.

 

Did you fire your projects at school or somewhere else?

 

Yes, as in many of our schools there is until today a clean workshop with a kiln, welding material, woodworking tools etc. but no mechanics, too much risks we modify our motorcycles at school certainly.
But I remember that mine was made at the small school and we go with out works of art to the bigger school to burn them, a great adventure. ;-)

 

It may merely be hobbyist but the sculpture has enormous energy. This kid has talent.

 

It's as for many works of art subjective, but how it's made is clearly not the work of a specialist or somebody who work with clay everyday, the chances to break with such a manner in the drying are so important as the tensions when fired.
The most important is that you like it, after all others considerations it's the major opinion !

 

Waldorf kindergarten kid on drugs.