Metlox Poppytrail California Contempora – Simply Amazing

This stuff is amazing. Space age, angled and weird. Some details from gr8ampottery:

Metlox Potteries of Manhattan Beach, California produced the glazed earthenware “Contempora”; making its debut in 1955.”

I can’t get over this thing. It’s for serving alien food. What? You put one devilled egg and an olive in the depressions? What is this thing?
Photos by A Better Solution.