Description
Here be a puffer fish with his mouth wide open and a belly full of nothing yet. He’s a ceramic ashtray in a speckled cream glaze, freckled brown along the head and tail, with a glossy black eye, a raised rust-red fin stroked down his side, a ribbed tail and a little open snout up front. The big round opening in his side drops into a bowl glazed black inside.
Turn him over and he changes clothes: the underside is bare terracotta with a deep brown band, his eye showing through on that side too, and a ridged fin pressed into the clay. We found no maker’s mark on him.
The Captain picked him up at a church sale up in the North Woods and brought him down to the South Loop dock. He shows some honest wear: brown freckling and a few rough spots on the tail and snout. Put him to work as an ashtray, or let him guard the keys and rings by the door.
Free pickup at the South Loop dock is recommended. He’s small and light enough to ship, quoted after the sale.
