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Place of Origin: North American
Peter Shire Exp Signed Ceramic Pottery Splatter Tall Mug Sculpture, Dated 1981
By Peter Shire
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful work by famed Los Angeles (Echo Park), California-based artist Peter Shire who was a founding member (along with Italian designer Ettore Sottsass and others) of The Memphis Group, an international design movement that came out of Italy during the 1980s (1980-1988), and specialized in postmodern furniture, lighting, fabrics, carpets, ceramics, glass, and metal objects. This work is from 1981 and is signed with Shire's customary "EXP" pottery (Echo Park Pottery...
Category

1980s Post-Modern Vintage North American Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic

Beatrice Wood Signed Mid-Century California Pottery Dark Lava Crater Glaze Vase
By Beatrice Wood
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderfully designed work by famed American California Studio master ceramist Beatrice Wood featuring a gorgeous, dark, iridescent metallic volcanic lava crater muted glaze. A cla...
Category

Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern North American Ceramics

Materials

Earthenware

19th C Sponge Ware Giant Mixing Bowl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large banded sponge ware pottery mixing bowl is in a light sky blue sponged pattern. The rim has some minor age chips and a small spider in the inside but not through the bowl. ...
Category

Late 19th Century Country Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic, Pottery

Barbara Willis Signed Large Mid-Century Modern California Studio Pottery Bowl
By Barbara Willis
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully designed and gorgeously glazed large stoneware Mid-century Modern low bowl by California studio pottery artist Barbara Willis (1917-2011). The elongated curved contour...
Category

Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery, Stoneware

Clyde Burt Signed Large Mid-Century Modern Studio Pottery Ceramic Art Bowl
By Clyde Burt
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful and quite impressive large, heavy, hand-decorated bowl by Ohio-born Midwest American master potter/ artist Cyde Burt who early in his career studied under Maija Grotell...
Category

Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery, Stoneware

Studio Ceramic Stoneware Vase
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A distinctive studio ceramic vase has a tall narrow shape, brown, with an outer glossy glaze and speckled white detailing. The cylindrical form contains an unglazed area at the neck ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern North American Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic, Clay, Pottery, Stoneware

19th Century Monumental Mocha Yellow Ware Mixing Bowl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fine very large Mocha Yellow ware bowl with the blue seaweed pattern throughout.
Category

Late 19th Century Adirondack Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

Ceramic Pulque Canteen From Coyotepec, Oaxaca, Circa 1950´s
Located in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
Ceramic pulque / mezcal canteen from Coyotepec, Oaxaca, circa 1950´s showing agave motif design on the front side. The canteen has been hand crafted using black clay from San Bartolo...
Category

1950s Folk Art Vintage North American Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic, Clay

Beatrice Wood Mid-Century California Studio Pottery Luster Glaze Framed Fragment
By Beatrice Wood
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderfully crafted and beautifully glazed framed pottery fragment by famed American/California ceramicist Beatrice Wood featuring her highly coveted, often experimental, gorgeous ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern North American Ceramics

Materials

Earthenware, Pottery

Two Amazing 19th Century Design Sponge Ware Pitchers
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This group of sponge ware pitchers are in good condition with a minor hair line in the pitcher to the right. This size pitcher were used for cream or milk on the table or in the pant...
Category

19th Century Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

19th Century Cowden Wilcox Decorated Stoneware Jug
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fine blue 19th century decorated stoneware two gallon Cowden & Wilcox jug is in fine condition. This heavy flower design is quite unusual. Condition is mint. This was made in Ha...
Category

19th Century Adirondack Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Stoneware

Marbled Roadside Pottery Malachite Look Bowl in with Glazed Turquoise Interior
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A petite small clay roadside decorative touring bowl. This catchall or dish is short, and wide, and decorated with a malachite look green marbled design on the exterior. The inside is glazed in deep verdigris or turquoise. A lovely piece of earthenware, it is hand made and marked on the bottom with: Central City...
Category

Mid-20th Century Folk Art North American Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic, Earthenware, Paint

Rare and Unusual Signed Elsinore Pottery Spongeware Bowl
By Elsinore Pottery Co.
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This amazing crazed 19th century spongeware mixing bowl is signed on the base Elsinore Pottery, California. It is most unusual to find any type ...
Category

Late 19th Century Adirondack Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

California Design Stoneware Weed Pot / Vase by Wayne Chapman
By Wayne Chapman
Located in San Diego, CA
An absolutely stunning California design stoneware weed pot / vase by noted San Diego, CA potter Wayne Chapman, circa 1970. The pot is in very good vinta...
Category

Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery, Stoneware

Monumental 19th Century Mocha Yellow Ware Mixing Bowl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This gigantic yellow ware seaweed mocha mixing bowl is in fine condition. It has amazing light blue sea weed decoration. Fantastic large bowl!!
Category

1870s Adirondack Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic

Antique 19th C. Southern / Mid-Atlantic Redware Cream or Milk Pitcher
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine, small antique redware pitcher. With a squat body, applied handle, and pinched spout. Found in Virginia (near the Maryland border). ...
Category

19th Century Folk Art Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Earthenware, Pottery

Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Glazed Chawan Tea Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and quite engaging sumptuously glazed relatively large Chawan tea bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The fired bowl features a drip ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery, Stoneware

Tonala Mexico Bird Jar with Lid, Signed Hand-painted 1960s
By Ken Edwards, Tonala Pottery
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Ceramic cylinder-shaped jar features Folk Art style decor with highly detailed floral motifs and garlands, repeating on both front and back sides of the jar. The lid is decorated wit...
Category

Mid-20th Century Folk Art North American Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic, Pottery

Rare 19th Century Yellow Ware Mocha Seaweed Potty
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This rare yellow ware child's potty has the blue sponged or seaweed design and is in fine condition. Great addition to any yellow ware or mocha collection.
Category

Mid-19th Century Country Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

Folk art Ceramic Stoneware jug
Located in Denton, TX
Warm Rose and yellow salt glaze jug mqde in the 19th century with a nice curved handle.
Category

Late 19th Century Folk Art Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Stoneware

19th C Decorated Stone Ware Pitcher
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fine hand made & hand painted pottery pitcher is in fine condition. This is such a rare piece and most unusual.
Category

19th Century Adirondack Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

19th C Decorated Stone Ware Pitcher
19th C Decorated Stone Ware Pitcher
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
19Thc Highly Decorated Three Gal.Cowden Wilcox Jug
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 19Thc highly blue decorated Cowden & Wilcox pottery jug is from Harrisburg,Pennsylvania and is in fine condition.The heavy blue decoration is quite unusual with a tulip va...
Category

Early 19th Century Folk Art Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Stoneware

Sponge Ware 19th Century Pottery Harvest Jug
By F.H. Weeks
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This super rare 19th century sponge ware pottery jug is signed on base F.H.WEEKS, AKRON, OHIO with some other lettering like pat. Pending. This was used as a canteen with the original metal wire handle. This is called a harvest jug...
Category

Late 19th Century Country Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

19th Century Sponge Ware Pottery Serving Bowl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a large 19th century sponge ware serving bowl with a fluted rim. The condition is very good.
Category

Late 19th Century Folk Art Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

Rare 12 Pcs. Sponge Ware Child s Tea Set
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fine and rare 19thc sponge ware tea set is in good condition and very rare to find. Teapot, sugar & creamer. Two cups & saucers. Four mini plates.
Category

Late 19th Century Folk Art Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic

Antique American Mid-Atlantic States Yellow Slip Decorated Redware Pie Plate
By John Bell
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique redware pie plate. Found in Virginia. In red earthenware with 3 yellow slip wave-like devices to the center. The interior of the plate is glazed while the rim and exterior remain unglazed. Simply a wonderful early piece of early American redware...
Category

19th Century Folk Art Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

20th Century Ransbottom Cookie Jar
By Robinson Ransbottom Company
Located in Los Angeles, CA
20th century Robinson Ransbottom cookie jar. 2qt canister. Beautiful condition.
Category

20th Century Folk Art North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

Peter Shire Exp Signed Ceramic California Studio Pottery Glazed Honey Pot, 1978
By Peter Shire
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful and rare/scarce early work by famed Los Angeles (Echo Park), California-based artist Peter Shire who was a founding member (along with Italian designer Ettore Sottsass and others) of The Memphis Group, an international design movement that came out of Italy during the 1980s (1980-1988), and specialized in postmodern furniture, lighting, fabrics, carpets, ceramics, glass, and metal objects. This beautifully decorated and glazed honey pot is signed (with Shire's customary "Made in Echo...
Category

1970s Post-Modern Vintage North American Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic, Pottery, Paint

19th Century Yellow Ware in Seaweed Pattern Mixing Bowls, Pair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These two yellow ware seaweed pattern mixing bowls are in fine as found condition. There are no chips or cracks and have wonderful blue painted sea...
Category

Late 19th Century Adirondack Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

Blue and White Ceramic Chintz Figurine of a Peasant Woman
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Ceramic figurine of a woman in blue and white glaze. For grand millennials and chintz lovers, this small porcelain figurine will make a superb addition to your blue and white collection. This lovely piece depicts a peasant woman carrying her wares. Her hair is styled in a swept-up style, with a blue glazed hat. Her features are hand-painted in black, with bright red lips. A blue corset...
Category

20th Century Georgian North American Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic

19th Century Sponge Ware Pottery Serving Bowl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th century sponge ware pottery bowl. The condition is very good. Great for serving berries or vegetables. Great size!
Category

Late 19th Century Country Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

Doyle Lane California Studio Pottery Mid-Century Modern Ceramic Three Bead Set
By Doyle Lane
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully designed, gorgeously glazed, original ceramic three three-bead set (one burnt red, one ocean blue, one white crackle glaze) by famed mid-century American artist and potter Doyle Lane...
Category

Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

Dora De Larios Signed Mid-Century Modern Large California Studio Pottery Vase
By Dora De Larios
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous, rare, and unique large stoneware vase by famed Mexican American California studio art potter Dora De Larios. De Larios was born in Los Angeles to Mexican immigrant parents. She grew up in the artistic Silver Lake district near downtown Los Angeles amongst Mexican and Nisei Japanese immigrants. As a result, De Larios was heavily influenced by ancient American...
Category

Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern North American Ceramics

Materials

Stoneware

19Thc Decorated Cowden Wilcox Pottery Jug
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 19thc decorated stoneware jug is in fine condition. It has a little simple flower design in indigo blue decoration. This jug is stamped Cowden & Wilcox ,Harrisburg,Pennsylvania....
Category

Mid-19th Century Adirondack Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

Maria Martinez San Ildefonso Blackware Jar, circa 1930, Black on Black Pottery
By Maria Martinez
Located in Denver, CO
This exceptional blackware jar, created by renowned San Ildefonso Pueblo potter Maria Poveka Martinez (1887-1980), is a striking piece of Native American ...
Category

1930s Native American Vintage North American Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic

Sgraffito Charger Metropolitan Museum of Art MMA Reproduction
Located in Sharon, CT
Extremely convincing hand thrown and painted with sgraffito, 20th c. reproduction of the famous Pennsylvania Dutch Charger from the Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC. Marked on bottom ...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Colonial North American Ceramics

Materials

Clay

19th Century Sponge Ware Pottery Serving Bowls, Collection of Four
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These serving bowls or vegetable bowls are in pristine condition and selling as a group four bowls. The bowls have old crazing and are all in fine condition. Measures: 6 x 8 -3 7 x...
Category

Late 19th Century Country Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

Beatrice Wood Signed Mid-Century California Studio Pottery Red Lava Glaze Vase
By Beatrice Wood
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful jewel of a piece by famed American/California ceramicist/artist Beatrice Wood featuring a rare radiant red lava glaze - one that we have not seen before (It is quite some...
Category

Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern North American Ceramics

Materials

Earthenware, Pottery

Collection of Five 19th Century Sponge Ware Custard Cups
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This collection of five 19th century sponge ware pottery custard cups ate in good condition.
Category

Late 19th Century Adirondack Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

Folk Art Terracotta Pinch Pot Bud Vase - Signed - Canada - Late 20th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
Vintage Folk Art studio pottery terracotta pinch pot bud vase - hand formed ceramic body with carved/textured exterior - navy blue glaze with...
Category

Late 20th Century Folk Art North American Ceramics

Materials

Terracotta

Tonala Mexico Pair of Mugs Cups Bird Decor, Signed Hand-painted 1960s
By Ken Edwards, Tonala Pottery
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Ceramic trapezoid-shaped pair of mugs or cups features Folk Art style decor with charming bird on branches motifs on front side and abstract branches with leaves motifs on the back s...
Category

Mid-20th Century Folk Art North American Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic, Pottery

Doyle Lane Mid-Century Modern Rare Colored Glass Ceramic Pottery Square Form
By Doyle Lane
Located in Studio City, CA
A rare, beautifully designed glass or ceramic form by famed midcentury American artist or potter Doyle Lane. Lane was a glaze specialist much like Glen Lukens and Otto Natzler. His colorful glazes would melt, bubble and crack over his pieces creating a very tactile look and feel. His work ranged from beaded necklaces and pendants to small, delicate vases or weed pots to ceramic sculptures, clay paintings, and large scale wall mosaics (including his most well-known work - an 18-foot mosaic or mural known as the orange wall which was commissioned by architect Welton Becket...
Category

Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern North American Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic

Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Glazed Chawan Tea Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and very engaging Chawan tea bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The fired stoneware bowl features a vast array of shifting, vibrant,...
Category

Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery, Stoneware

Jun Kaneko Signed Monumental Art Studio Pottery Ceramic Wall Sculpture Charger
By Jun Kaneko
Located in Studio City, CA
A truly breathtaking work by renowned Japanese born ceramic master Jun Kaneko. Kaneko studied with Peter Voulkos, Paul Soldner, and Jerry Rothman and was exposed to such artist as Ken Price and John...
Category

1980s Modern Vintage North American Ceramics

Materials

Paint, Ceramic, Stoneware

Large American Micromosaic Alaskan Landscape, Features Moose
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Large American Micromosaic Alaskan landscape, Features Moose This large scale micromosaic panel is executed with impressive precision. It features a moose in a typical Alaskan lands...
Category

Mid-20th Century Adirondack North American Ceramics

Materials

Marble

19th Century Decorated Salt Glaze Jug -Cowden Wilcox
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 19th century hand decorated or painted Cowden & Wilcox jug from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in fine condition. These decorated stoneware jugs are hard to find in such fine condition.
Category

Mid-19th Century Adirondack Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

Laura Andreson Signed Monumental Glazed Mid-Century Modern Ceramic Pottery Bowl
By Laura Andreson
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderfully crafted and beautifully glazed (in Fall greens and browns) large bowl/vase by renowned American potter Laura Andreson. Gorgeous in its Mid-Century Modern design and shifting colors. Signed on the base by Andreson. A quite special and rare work. Certainly, one of the best pieces of Andreson's work we have had the pleasure to come across. Highly collectible. Would be a great addition to any midcentury ceramics collection or a very eye-catching stand-alone work in about any setting. Andreson, who studied under Glen Lukens, founded and headed the ceramics department at UCLA from 1933-1970. Her work can be found in many collections and museums worldwide including: Metropolitan Museum of Art The Museum of Modern Art Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Smithsonian Museum of American Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Walker Art Center The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Her exhibitions include: 1937 Rene Rosenthal Gallery, New York City, New York. 1938 First California Ceramic Exhibition, San Diego, California 1940 Honolulu Academy of Art. 1947 Eleventh National Ceramics Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1970 Fredric Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, California. 1970 Laguna Beach Art Gallery. 1971 Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California. 1971 Hoover Art Gallery, San Francisco, California. 1971 San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, California. 1971 Utah State University, Logan, Utah. 1972 Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California. 1972 Ceramics West, Utah State University, Logan, Utah. 1972 Ogden Art Center, Ogden, Utah. 1972 Bower Museum, Santa Ana, California. 1973 Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, Utah. 1973 Clay and Fiber Gallery, Taos, New Mexico. 1973 California Crafts VIII, Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California. 1974 California Ceramics...
Category

1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage North American Ceramics

Materials

Stoneware

Set of Four 19th Century Cut Sponge Plates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These early mid-19th century cut sponge and flo-blue combo plates are in pristine condition. Fantastic red cut sponge borders with painted red, blue and green centre. These plates ar...
Category

Mid-19th Century Country Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

Set of Four 19th Century Cut Sponge Plates
Set of Four 19th Century Cut Sponge Plates
$1,276 Sale Price / set
32% Off
19thc Sponge Ware Mixing Bowl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fine large 19thc sponge ware pottery mixing or serving bowl is in fine condition. Its a nice lighter or sky blue color. Great for serving salads or fruit salad at the dinner table.
Category

Mid-19th Century Adirondack Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

19thc Sponge Ware Mixing Bowl
19thc Sponge Ware Mixing Bowl
$476 Sale Price
20% Off
Large 19th Century Spongeware Mush Cup and Saucer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These large oversize cup and saucer sets are very hard to find in good condition. There are so few out there that did not get damaged.
Category

Late 19th Century Country Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

19th Century Large Sponge Ware Serving Bowl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This most unusual shaped 19th century sponge ware bowl has a wonderful fluted shape and makes a great serving bowl or fruit bowl. The condition is ver...
Category

Late 19th Century Folk Art Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

Vintage Studio Pottery Green Leaf Platter, Unsigned, Canada, 20th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
Large vintage studio pottery serving platter - realistically modelled/molded as a leaf - over-all dark green glaze with subtle iridescence - kiln/firing stilt marks to the base - uns...
Category

20th Century Folk Art North American Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic

19th Century Rare Hand-Painted Stick Spatter Plate with Rabbits
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a fine example of an unsigned hand-painted stick spatter plate with painted rabbits surround the border. The condition is very good with old craz...
Category

Late 19th Century American Classical Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic

California Studio Organic Pottery Vessel Brush Pot Vase
By Beatrice Wood
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Studio organic pottery vessel brush pot vase with incised Geometric pattern. A very nice California studio pottery earthenware vase with beautiful grayish blue and brown earth tones. The vase has a wonderful free form design featuring abstract stroke...
Category

Mid-20th Century Folk Art North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

19th Century American Sponge Ware Bake Dish / Pot
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fine example of 19th century sponge ware bake dish is in great as found condition. The rim has age wear but no chips or cracks throughout. Great crock...
Category

Late 19th Century Country Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

19th Century Sponge Ware Pottery Bowl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th century blue and white sponge ware mixing or batter bowl. With clam shell design. The condition is mint.
Category

Mid-19th Century Country Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Glazed Chawan Tea Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and quite engaging sumptuously glazed Chawan tea bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The fired bowl features a vast array of shifting...
Category

Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern North American Ceramics

Materials

Earthenware, Pottery

Vintage Folk Art Brutalist Flower Vase, 1970s
Located in San Carlos, CA
Cool Brutalist Folk Art vase with an asymmetrical design, nice and unusual patterns and a gorgeous blue and purple drip-glazed finish. This Mid-Century Modern vase is in very good...
Category

1970s Brutalist Vintage North American Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic, Pottery

19th C Spongeware Slop Bucket with Lid
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th C Spongeware slop bucket with lid.
Category

19th Century American Classical Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

19th C Sponge Mush Cups and Saucers, Set of Four
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This matching set of four 19thc sponge ware mush cups and saucers are in pristine condition.Many different shades of blues.Found in Pennsylvania private collection. Sold as a set of Four cups...
Category

Late 19th Century Adirondack Antique North American Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

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