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Pottery football playerThis is a pottery head of a football player. It is a strong and expressive piece of folk art sculpture. It measures 8" high by 6 1/2" wide by about 6" deep, and is of unknown age, but it is old. It is solid, not hollow, and very heavy. The condition is fair: part of the face guard on the helmet is missing, and there is minor flaking on the surface. In spite of this, it is a vivid folk art portrait with great "presence". The price is $375.00. Inventory Code: TACK.   Pottery football player ... Another view ... One side ... The other side ... Back ... Closeup ... Another closeup ... Closeup of back ... Another overall view ... From above ... From below.
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photoThis pottery bathing beauty is fully three-dimensional, reclining on a triangular ashtray. She is natural colored clay decorated with reddish brown glaze. The overall size is 10" wide by 4" deep by 2" high. It is in very good condition, with a few extremely tiny flakes on the edges. She came from Texas, and the bathing suit and hair style are typical of the 1960's. The price is $90.00. Inventory Code: ATWP.   Image ... Front view ... Back view ... From one side ... Bottom.    Larger images:   Image ... Front view ... Back view ... From one side ... Bottom.

Pottery skullThis is a very strange redware skull. It is shaped like a primitive fossil skull rather than a modern human one, and glazed white. It has been broken and reglued (no missing pieces), strengthening the impression that it is a fossil. It is fairly detailed, with heavy teeth and sockets where two teeth would be missing if it were a real skull. (They are not really missing, it was made this way.) It has no lower jaw. There is a signature on the bottom that is not quite legible; it looks like B. Volken. The size is 5 1/2" high by 5" wide by 7" deep. The price is $210.00. Inventory Code: PAHH. Image.

Pottery polar bearThis primitive pottery polar bear has nice form and movement. It has a yellowish-cream glaze with some hints of green, and is in perfect condition. A hand written label on the bottom reads "Jonny UBS 1962-3". It is 6 1/2" long, 3" high, and about 3" wide. The price is $85.00. Inventory Code: POCC. Image.

Pottery bowlHere is a very interesting pottery bowl. It is covered with incised figures of people, animals, and designs. It is glazed both inside and in the incisings. It was hand formed, not turned, but probably made by the coil method. Found in the NC mountains; it is signed Daniel Ray Owen; and most likely was done within the last 20 years. It is 7" high by approximately 8 1/2" in diameter, in perfect condition. The price is $275.00. Inventory Code: POHW.   Image.

Here are some pieces of tourist ware pottery. We have several more besides these, all hand done with various different glazes, and in different sizes and shapes. For all of them, their age is hard to pin down but they are certainly not new. We were told these were primarily made in the 1940's and 50's in the South, Ozarks, and Appalachia. Regardless of their age and origin they are really very nice, functional and decorative objects.

Pottery planterThis tourist ware pottery planter is 4 3/4" high by 6 1/4" in diameter, with a drainage hole in the bottom. The crazed glaze is in rich blue, maroon, green, and cream, with tiny firing bubbles. It has good age, and the condition is excellent. The price is $85.00. Inventory Code: AHWW.   Image ... From above ... From below.    Larger images: Image ... From above ... From below.

Here is a vase, 5" high by 4 1/4" in diameter. It is in excellent condition, with nice color and tiny firing bubbles in the glaze. The price is $95.00. Inventory Code: AHWK. Overall image.

This small planter is 3 3/4" high by 5 3/4" in diameter. It was made to have three holes around the rim for hanging, but two of them were filled in by the glaze during firing to leave indentations. The condition is very good and the price is $95.00. Inventory Code: AHWH. Overall image.

Touristware bowlThis is a large planter with a flat glazed surface. It is 9 3/4" high by 13" in diameter in very good to excellent condition. There is very slight crazing to the glaze. The planter is mostly cream colored with banding and decoration done in blue, green, and rust. It has a drainage hole in the bottom. The price is $175.00. Inventory Code: AHAH. Image ... Another side ... From above ... From below.    Larger images:   Image ... Another side ... From above ... From below.

Touristware planterA green and white planter. It is 5 3/4" high and 6 1/4" in diameter in excellent condition. There is very slight crazing to the glaze. The price is $85.00. Inventory Code: AHTP. Image ... Larger image.

Tourist ware planterThis is a small planter. It has three holes formed in it for hanging. It is in excellent condition with a medium glossy glazed surface; and is nicely decorated in red, blue, green rust, and yellow colors. It is 4 1/4" high by 6" in diameter. The price is $110.00. Inventory Code: AHWR. Image ... Another side ... From above ... From below.    Larger images:   Image ... Another side ... From above ... From below.

 

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