An early 20thc Czech art pottery vase, thickly glazed in rust, blue and green tones on a buff-coloured body.
Stamped 'Czechoslaovakia', impressed 'Lv' with model number 10212 and ziz-zag device. Incised with same ziz-zag device.
Height 10", collection # EP01
An early 20thc. arts and crafts period plaster, modeled as a hooded female figure. (possibly Dante's love, Beatrice Portinari)
Signed with monogram 'CH' and measuring 7-1/2" high.
Collection # EP02
A 19thc. Austrian Art Nouveau earthenware jardiniere, modeled and patinated to simulate a Japanese bronze.
Impressed 'C 64' and measuring 7-1/2" x 4" high.
Collection # EP 03
An English Art Deco period pottery vase painted with geometric semi-circular motifs in green yellow and orange. Vase is spherical in form and stands 4-1/4" high. Collection #EP17
A Dutch mid-century studio pottery 'fat lava' vase from the Pieter Groeneveldt studio. Incised with 'TH' monogram, 'E3' and circular stamp "Made in Holland".
Height 15-1/2", collection # EP07
'Japonesque' pottery inkwell, carved and stained with samurai scenes imitating oriental ivory work. European, 19thc.
Height 4-1/2", Collection #EP05
A Wedgwood Keith Murray design matte straw-glazed footed bowl with turned rings to base, Barlaston England, c. 1930-40
12" diameter, Height 6". Collection # EP08
Professor Max Laeuger art pottery vase in the Jugendstil tradition, Kanderne Tonwerke, Karlsrhue, Germany, c. 1910
Vase is tube-line relief decorated with yellow flowers on long green stems against a blue ground, maker's monogram on base.
height 8 1/2", collection #EP11
Max Laeuger was the director of Art Pottery at the Kanderne Tonwerke and one of the pioneers of 20th-century ceramics design.
A 19thc. Macintyre agate ware condiment bottle and stopper in fine-grained stoneware decorated in buff and sienna brown marbling under a glassy overglaze. Rim finished in gilt.
Impressed 'Macintyre'. Height 4-1/2", Collection # EP16
A large Moorcroft Pansy pattern pottery vase signed in green, 'William Moorcroft 1912'.
One of the earliest examples of this pattern, previously thought to have originated in 1913 when William Moorcroft founded the Moorcroft 'brand'.
This vase was probably produced during William Moorcroft's final days with MacIntyre.
Vase measures 12" tall and tube-line decorated in typical Moorcroft manner. Collection # EP04
A Scandinavian crystalline glaze pottery jug in chocolate brown with greyish-brown crystal encrustations.
Incised with potter's monogram and stamped "C" and "89". Height 5", collection # EP14
Porcelain vase, El Pardo, made in Madrid Spain. Vase is hand-painted with a frieze of human figures and bulls between floral bands. Signed SG with a crown, decorado a mano. Decorator marks RR 5215/1788 in overglaze blue. Height 12-1/2", Collection # EP06
A pair of 19thc. Watcombe Torquay green-glazed terracotta ware jugs possibly designed by Dr. Christopher Dresser. The tall jug is impressed 'Watcombe Torquay' and incised '875' while the small jug is unmarked.
Large jug measures 12-1/2" tall and the diminutive jug a mere 2-1/2".
Collection #'s EP09 and EP10 respectively.
An early 20th.c. Macintyre art nouveau Aurelian ware goblet, decorated with a stylized poppy motif in underglaze blue, iron-red and gilt.
Marked 'Macintyre Burslem' with RD 31490. Height 6", collection # EP15
A Michael Andersen stoneware 'Dania' censer and lid, the spherical body decorated in a thick red glaze with a lid molded as flower petals. Lid glazed in an unctuous greenish buff tone.
Marked 'MA & S' and 'Danmark' on the foot and incised '1456'. Height 3-1/2". Circa 1920's.
Collection # EP12.
A pale blue ceramic sculpture of a female torseo by Arpad Csekovszky (Hungarian, 1931 - 1997).
Signed on base 'cseko'.
The piece measures 7-1/2" high and is mounted on a clear acrylic base.
Collection # EP18
A Grimwades Byzanta mid-century lustre vase decorated with a rampant lion and floral motifs in silver trimmed in gold. Stamped with Grimwades (Royal Winton) trademark with model number 5313c.
Height 7-1/2", collection # EP13
A large 1930's Susie Cooper pottery charger. Made at the Crown Works, Burslem, England in the 'Art Deco' 'Red Printemps' pattern. Signed 'A Susie Cooper Production' with red printed factory marks.
16-1/2" diameter, Collection# EP33
Vintage pottery vase designed by Noomi Backhausen for Soholm Stentoj (stoneware), Bornholm, Denmark. Produced c. 1971. Impressed 'handmade' with pottery mark and model number.
Height 7-1/2", Collection #EP28
A Salvador Dali designed tile, 'Las guitarras' produced by ADEX, Valencia, Spain for Maurice Duchin.
Tile is mounted in an iron scrollwork frame and ink-stamped on reverse '1954 Maurice Duchin all rights reserved'
Size, tile: 8" x 8", with frame, 10" x 10"
Collection # EP34
A Hungarian enameled terracotta figure group depicting a peasant couple, produced in the mid 20th century by Komlos Keramia Budapest.
Height 15", Collection #EP13
For other illustrated examples, see "Magyar Art Deco Keramiak" by Fabian Sandor.
An English stoneware pottery yunomi or japanese inspired tea bowl by an as yet unrecognized potter. Purchased at an antiques fair in London, c. 1980's
Height 3-1/2", Collection # EP29
potter's chop:
A pair of English studio pottery bowls, miniature bowl with glaze test inscriptions.
Maker unknown but with Trident mark (unread) on applied pad along with "Made in England".
Heights: 3-1/2" and 1", coll. #EP31
A pair of Keramia mid-century enameled earthenware figures of children, marked "Made in Czechoslovakia" and impressed 351 (boy) and 157-115 (girl)
Made by Keramia Czechoslovakia.
Height 9", coll. #EP24
An early 20th century Brannam pottery vase in orange, green and yellow drip glazes, Marked CH Brannam, Barum, N. Devon, with "Made in England". Barum is the old Roman name for the town of Barnstable in the UK's west country.
Vase measures 9-1/2" tall, coll. # EP21
Crown Ducal Charlotte Rhead "Persian Leaf" pattern tube-lined charger.
Charger dia. 13", coll. #EP32
Piece dates to post 1931 period when Charlotte Rhead moved from Burgess & Leigh (Burleigh Pottery) to A.G Richardson trading under the "Crown Ducal" brand.
A Bert Neinhuis design oil lamp produced by Goedewaagen, Gouda, Holland.
Lamp is decorated with the stylized dragonfly motif in brown, orange and black on a matte, cream coloured body.
Height 10" Collection # EP20
A mid-century Austrian earthenware ashtray of Pierrot with a guitar. The base of this piece is fitted with a music box movement that starts up when the ashtray is lifted.
Appropriately, it plays the Viennese zither melody the 'Harry Lime' theme from the Orson Welles film 'The Third Man'. Circa 1950's
Height 6", collection # EP26.
Theme from the Third Man Anton Karas, zither
A mid 20thc Austrian earthenware figure of a Tyrolean shepherd boy playing a flute. Produced at Alpenländische Kunstkeramik Werkstatte in Liezen, Austria.
Height 9", coll. #EP25
A Royal Copenhagen Fajance 'Baca' series vase designed by Ivan Weiss. Produced in the mid to late 1970's.
Vase is decorated in tones of yellow, brown and silver grey.
Signed with the Weiss cypher with Royal Copenhagen Fajance symbols and 'Made in Denmark'
ht 6", collection # EP22
A pair of Walter Bosse donkey figure bookends made at Tonindustrie Scheibbs in Austria during the Weiner Werkstatte era.
Impressed 'Made in Austria' with Tonindustrie Scheibbs Keramik (1923-1933) shield mark.
Height 7", collection # EP27
A red matte glazed Plazuid (Plateelbakkerij Zuid-Holland) pottery vase, with Gero pewter mount, art deco period.
Signed 'Koni plazuid Gero Holland' on base.
Height 7-1/2", Collection # EP19.
An earthenware majolica pottery figure of a man in renaissance dress produced by Zaccagnini. Mid 20th century.
Height 12", coll. #EP35
A translucent Paris porcelain lamp modeled as a monk holding a chicken and a bottle of wine, marked "Heldey Paris". Early 20th century
Height 8", coll. #EP36
An earthenware majolica pottery figure of a lady in renaissance dress produced by Zaccagnini. Mid 20th century.
Height 12", coll. #EP35
