Mid-Century Modern Matte Black and White Porcelain Gravy Boat with Attached Underplate

This is a sleek, mid-century modern gravy boat featuring a bi-color ceramic construction with a matte black exterior and a glossy white interior finish. The design is highly aerodynamic and organic, characterized by a low-profile, elongated boat form that tapers into a graceful spout. It features a sweeping, open-loop handle that integrates seamlessly into the body's rim. The boat is permanently attached to a matching wide, oval underplate, which shares the matte black top surfacing and white underside. Based on the silhouette and color scheme, this piece heavily evokes the 'Tomorrow's Classic' or 'Museum' shapes designed by Eva Zeisel for Hall China or similar modernist lines by Rosenthal from the 1950s or 1960s. The craftsmanship is of high quality, showing smooth transitions and thin, elegant proportions. Regarding condition, there is visible surface wear to the matte black glaze, including several small white scuffs or scratches on the side of the vessel and noticeable shelf wear or edge-rubbing along the rim of the underplate where the white ceramic base is showing through. No major chips or cracks are immediately visible, but the matte finish shows typical sensitivity to handling and metal marks.