Heavily glazed handbuilt ceramic bottle with a flared trumpet rim, ash-like encrustations, and an incised word half-buried in the glaze, piece 2011 of A Penny For Your Pottery.

Six photos circle a bottle that looks pulled from a shipwreck: a handbuilt ovoid rising to a true neck with a flared, wavy trumpet rim, coppery-brown glaze pooling glassy inside it. Crusted deposits in amber, grey, and brown grip the shoulders, ruffled fin-like ears stand at either side — solid, not loops — and a small hole pierces one shoulder. Mid-flank, someone incised letters into the wet clay; the glaze then buried half of them. They start like “Woo—” and end in speculation.

What does the word on piece 2011 say? The photos show three letters clearly and swallow the rest — Wood? Wool? Woo? The page reports the scratch, not the sentence. Piece 2011 of 10,000, listed at $20.11.

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