Vas de formă tronconică cu buza evazată și ondulată obținută prin apăsare cu degetul. Decorul este minimalist, format dintr-o linie dreaptă și una linie șerpuită trase cu pensula cu angobă de huma alba. Nesmălțuit. Cromatică: fond: cărămiziu; motive: alb.

The vessel was shaped by hand on a wheel or with coiling, then left unglazed to preserve the clay’s texture. The white lines were painted using a slip made from fine huma clay, applied with a brush in a single, fluid motion. The irregular rim and uneven base indicate manual handling without mold use, reinforcing the object’s handmade character and the artist’s direct engagement with the medium.

The object is attributed to Magopăț Ilie, a ceramicist known for his restrained, material-focused work in Romanian folk traditions. While specific dates or collection history are not provided, the form and technique align with late 20th-century studio pottery movements in Romania that revived indigenous methods while rejecting industrial replication.

This piece emerges from a regional ceramic tradition that values tactile honesty and functional clarity. Its lack of glaze and sparse decoration distinguishes it from more ornate folk pottery, situating it within a broader postwar shift toward minimalist, artist-led ceramics that prioritize process over decoration and local materials over imported finishes.

Magopăț Ilie’s work, including this vessel, contributed to a redefinition of Romanian ceramics as a contemporary art form grounded in craft. His emphasis on hand-formed surfaces and restrained decoration influenced later generations of potters seeking to balance tradition with modernist abstraction, preserving the integrity of material and gesture.