This middle 1800s hand thrown crock with incised shoulder lines, incised number 4 and applied strap handle with finger indentation at its base comes from a family with past generational ties to both Kentucky and North Carolina. All anyone remembers is it was grandmas and was always on her porch. The piece stands 17 tall […]
Tagged: 4gal | antique | carolina | churn | crock | glaze | kentucky | pottery | salt | southern | tennessee
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ANTIQUE FLORAL & LEAF COBALT DECORATED SALT GLAZE CROCK W/ EAR HANDLES! Gorgeous cobalt decorated floral and leaf design accents this lovely primitive salt glaze stoneware churn base or crock. Loaded with the years of patina as you can see in our posted photos, it carries interesting evidence of a green underglaze peaking through the […]
Tagged: antique | churn | cobalt | crock | decorated | glaze | handles | salt | stoneware
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Chinese Shiwan Pottery Stoneware Guang Jun Glaze Low Bowl, with perched birds, 2.5lbs. 4.25 height x 7.5 x 6.25. Good condition, some scattered chips to birds, flowers. Some shallow factory origin chips to bottom. We have a fine selection of quality items for sale at Amphora Art & Antiques. The authenticity of all items listed […]
Tagged: birds | bowl | chinese | glaze | guang | perched | pottery | shiwan | stoneware
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Ive had this stoneware cat for several years now, but now its time to make more room in my cabinet since I found some other great things it fill my cabinet. They described it as, Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Figure of a Cat, possibly Ohio origin, late 19th century, molded figure of a seated cat on oblong […]
Tagged: 19th | american | antique | blue | century | cobalt | drip | glaze | primitive | stoneware
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This great jug has been in my family for as long as I can remember. And I have two rowdy Dobermans that might one day knock it over. It is quite heavy weighing around 12 pounds. It stands nearly 14″ and is 10″ at the base. The only mark is the number 3 which you […]
Tagged: antique | beehive | fantastic | glaze | large | pottery | stoneware | withhandle
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ANTIQUE 1856-60 NICHOLS & BOYNTON BURLINGTON VT SIGNED SALT GLAZE JUG! C1856-60 Nichols & Boynton of Burlington VT signed salt glaze stoneware jug with cobalt decoration. According to “Early New England Potters and Their Wares” by Lura Woodside Watkins, Nichols & Alford was established in 1854 by E. Farrar to create common items as well […]
Tagged: antique1856 | boyton | burlington | cobalt | glaze | nichols | salt | stoneware
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From an estate, a beautiful example of an antique 180-90s North Carolina pottery double handle jug with alkaline drip/ tobacco spit glaze. The glaze is particularly attractive, as the drips encircle the pot. Incised with a 5 for five gallons. The double handles are finished with a tip of the finger pressed into the clay […]
Tagged: alkaline | antique | carolina | drip | glaze | north | pottery | stoneware | tobacco
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An handled jug marked West Troy Pottery which I believe was in NY. Mark is light, but readable, jug is in overall good condition with some mild marking overall. Measures about 11 inches tall and 7 inches across. Looks to be about a gallon jug. Has an ornate 1 on the side in blue salt […]
Tagged: antique | blue | glaze | pottery | salt | stoneware | troy | water | west | whiskey
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A nice early American salt glaze stoneware pottery jug. Likely made in Ohio or elsewhere in the Mid-west in the last quarter of the 19th century. A script number 3 on the face done in cobalt slip. The jug had several areas of salt drips or turkey droppings that add to the charm of the […]
Tagged: 19th | century | droppings | glaze | late | midwest | pottery | salt | stoneware | turkey
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Very old Rye pottery Treacle glaze vessel. Unusual- old ceramic Rye pottery cup or vessel decorated with modeled hops. (Doesn’t appear to have Rye mark but OLD). Fabulously detailed, and evocative of a bygone era. We don’t know exact age but. By the style we think this is late 19th or early 20th century. This […]
Tagged: antique | ceramic | glaze | hops | pottery | style | treacle | very | vessel
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