The most surprising thing about this build is that the page edges are not paper at all. The sides carry horizontal grooves painted off-white to suggest pages, and until the lid comes off you could easily take the whole thing for a clothbound hardcover. It is a ceramic trinket box shaped and painted to look like a vintage copy of To Kill a Mockingbird, made as a gift for the maker's mother, who works as an English teacher.
The process behind the cover is what stands out to me. The maker printed a copy of the cover art, traced over it with a rounded ball point tool, and then did steady brush work on the lettering. In my opinion that is a smart order of operations; freehand lettering on clay looks like a fast route to wobbly text, so working from a traced guide first seems a sensible call.
The detailing rewards a close look. The front cover has sculpted and painted work copying the vintage book design, with the title, a note that it is a novel by Harper Lee, and a stylized tree branch on a coral background. The spine carries painted text naming Harper Lee, the title, and Lippincott. Inside, the hollow compartment is finished with a light green glaze, and I like that choice; the green is a pleasant hidden contrast against the coral outside.
The finished piece was shown on a blue metal pottery banding wheel and spun to display it from different angles. The one thing I am still left wondering about is how the lid and the hollow interior were formed and fitted together, which the maker has not gone into yet.