Somethings Old, New, Green, Redo!: Monmouth

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Friday, September 21, 2018

Junking Finds Aug/Sept 2018

I know I purchased more items this summer, but I have no idea what...I did find two more picnic baskets. But, I'm not sure which ones-(I have used these in the craft room for project storage and upstairs to hold sewing projects.)

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So this is what I found upstairs. The long shelf was $5.00 at my favorite thrift store. It's not old, but very long and has a nice plate groove in it. It is destined for the craft room!

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It was probably stained pine---and maybe 20 years old and has been painted a nice cranberry.

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The porcelain platter is marked GDA France (Limoges) dating it post 1898. By style---I'm going to rough guess it, 1910-20. I know that is a wide range, but these pieces were made for quite awhile for export--and sometimes painted elsewhere. This one has no painter's mark, but it is gorgeous porcelain painting, the rim is softly muted and with layers of painting for an ethereal effect. The yellow apples are also softly shaded. The edges and handles are gilded, the brown lines are uneven like branches,.

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This was probably a glazed blank, that was then over-glaze painted and fired multiple times to build up the gorgeous coloring, and a final firing with the gold. A very tedious process.

It is a generous 13" across including the gilded handles. I'm really in love with this piece and will use this for Fall decorating. There is one scratch---in the painting, but no flaws...really in great condition for a piece this size and those fragile handles.

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No painter's mark, giving any hint---when or where it may have been painted. Tip on cleaning---gentle soap and a soft rag. The painting is on top of the glaze and is fragile.

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This is yellow ware crock/bowl is a puzzle. Normally, I can find info on yellow ware stoneware bowls. This may or may not be antique. It is fired in the old way, though. A similar white stoneware one has been attributed to Ruckels/White Hall potteries, part of the the Western Stoneware group. Another the same mold---showed up in Minnesota---with a gray clay body. Perhaps it was a defunct pottery that sold their molds---all three are unmarked.

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It has several factory flaws---in the glaze, and one ding in the rim. The bottom of the inside shows it has been used---I call this mulberry on a high fired stoneware body. The edges are quite sharp---so if I sold this I would have to say--age unknown, however the yellow-beige clay body---is definitely Ohio/Missippi river clay, and probably from the midwest.

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At first I thought this was a six, but i'm going to say 9---because it is 9 1/2" across

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Possibly this is a mark? Or a tong mark for holding and then dipping into the glaze. The bare edges were coated with a wax to repel the glaze. If it is old, it's 30's 40's. This color is RARE. I will update if I run across this anywhere. It's a great color, size and shape, so I will keep it for the Fall and Winter holidays. I think it will be great for stuffing on Thanksgiving.

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I know I bought this set in June for a gift...put it in my china cabinet and then forgot about it.

Sweet glass unmarked serving platter and different cream and sugar---real black amethyst glass very stylish and Art Deco. The cream and sugar are Vintage Hazel Atlas Black Amethyst made 1930-35.

Then 7" cake plate is L.E. Smith Black and opaque/amethyst?

from the 20's to 1934, Mt.Pleasant pattern.

Listed together, these pieces would be $25.00-30.00.

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These two Japan Porcelain plates are just unusual. Gold edged and free painted violets.

I love the freedom with which the painter painted probably hundreds of these.

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On the mark Courtesy of Gotheborg.com

In 1924 a mark know as the "Cherry Blossom", in the shape of five "M" was sub-contracted by the Nippon Toki Kasha Company (Noritake Company) to independent companies making porcelain for export the USA Market. I have here collected a number of these and similar marks with the likelihood of a relation to the Noritake sales organization, the US market and a possibly date to the mid 1920s

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These are absolutely gorgeous. I don't normally pick up S&P's, but the pattern on these is perfect and they are---moriage style with raised glaze and then colors inlaid between the beaded paint. Lots going on in small spaces, here.

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This information is from http://gotheborg.com/marks/noritake.shtml

"Mark: "M" standing for "Morimura" in a wreath, crowned by "Hand painted" and below, NIPPON. Date: Introduced in 1911 and possible in use until 1921. The first reported U.S. registry for a Noritake back stamp for importing is 1911. Noritake first produced dinnerware for the American market in 1914.d"

So basically a 100 years old or so. LOVE them!

If I were to list them, they would start at $30.00

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I'm calling them-Trees in Winter, I haven't given them a good cleaning---the gold is in pretty good condition. Tip: on any over-glazed painted porcelain, clean only with gentle soap and a soft rag.

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This is Western Pottery Monmouth Illinois, probably from the 30-40's. Western pottery was formed from seven potteries in the Midwest in 1906. Five from Illinois were: Macomb, Monmouth, Weir, White Hall. Also, D.Culbertson, Clinton from Missouri and Fort Dodge Stoneware from Iowa.

Western Stoneware is still in business in the old Weir plant and located in Monmouth, Ill.

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This piece is basically perfect and hardly used, making dating it difficult.

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Marked USA on the bottom...the bottom has heat marks on it. Despite the unused look to the rest of it. No one definitively set a date on this pattern.

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I've seen these listed without a definite date for $35-$50.00. Very desirable--and a great size.

This casserole measures 8 1/2" x 5 1/2".

Hope you don't mind me going on about what these are----but ceramics are my thing...I bet you couldn't tell.

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Friday, September 11, 2015

Grannys' Bowls: Stoneware, salt-glazing and creamware identification.

First Good Morning, grab a cup, and sit for a chat.

The Chicago weather is finally starting to give us some cooler temperatures,

but with that is Rain, rain, Rain!~~~after Heat, heat Heat!

While it was so hot, I cleaned my kitchen (even the top of the FRIDGE) and thought about

what to share, as I was up there and it was all sparkling clean.

So here are OUR very OLD Grannys' bowls,

both my husband's and my Granny's are represented here.

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Normally two of these are on top of the double-oven stove, but I grouped them here for you.

I was a potter for thirty years so I'm going to chat about the origins of these bowls.

So you may learn more than you wanted to know.

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Beginning on the left is probably the OLDest bowl, (1870-1890) the brown one.

Of course this one has already wandered over to my soon-to-be Fall setting beginning

on the white cabinet from the cookbook move.

The top of the white cabinet's occupied with ripening tomatoes, just about the last though.

The rest of the tomatoes will become green tomato relish.

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This is hubby's great-grandmother's from a farm in Kewaunee, County in NE Wisconsin.

The classic shape is unmarked, and I would venture to say it's early Macomb pottery,

glazed with an Albany slip. The dark brown, Albany clay came from the Albany, NY area.

Those mills closed in the 1990's, but I still have a 50# stash in the basement.

Many of the brown topped jugs with the gray bottoms were made in the Macomb, Illinois area.

The bowl could also be Western, Monmouth, Buckeye or

any one of a number of the early potteries from that area. RedWing in Minnesota

also produced similar products with similar type clays and glaze mixtures.

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Unmarked, but notice the bare foot on the bottom of the bowl showing the gray stoneware clay, and the smear in the brown almost to bare on the side (the green is my reflection in the shiny brown glaze.

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The rim shown at the bottom is a clear glaze over the gray clay body, the pinky-beige barespot is a result of fuming gases on the gray bare clay from the dark brown (Albany) slip glaze burning off some iron oxides (rust colored) in the kiln. These utilitarian wares were mass produced and never perfect, but it is nice to know why somethings happened. Kiln atmospheres do funny things to pieces, that is why the wide ranges of color and textures in every kiln load.

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Salt-glazing occured when salts were thrown into the kiln at a high temperature which vaporized landing on the exposed clay areas of the wares, creating a clear glaze of sodium (salt) silica (clay). This was a cheap and easy method of glazing pottery,

as it could all be done in one firing and with less labor.

The brown stoneware is a perfect REDO with the fall gourds and textures in it.

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Next the Blue rimmed creamware bowl at the top of the picture.

This is a standard 8 ovenware bowl, from the Ohio Valley according to the clay color. Potteries such as McCoy, Roseville, Brush and Watt potteries all used yellow/tan Ohio Valley clays. The upper Ohio Valley had over three hundred potteries during the 1800's and the lower Ohio Valley perhaps more. Utilitarian wares were clear glazed over colored slip (clay) decorations such as these blue and white stripes.

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The bottom of my great grandmother's bowl says Ovenware 8 Made in U.S.A.

Probably pre-1930, and maybe very early McCoy.

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The large mixing bowl on the right is my grandmother's mixing bowl and is most often attributed to McCoy pottery. It's about 12" across and is from the 1930's. The body is creamware, although I believe some lighter clay has been added to the Ohio yellow clay body.

It is definitely from the 1930s from the coloring on the stripes of pink and robin's-egg-blue.

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Nice large size perfect for mixing huge batters or kneading breads.

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You can see the script letters in 'Oven Ware' dating it later, and the 12 designating the size, also says Made in U.S.A. The color in this picture is a bit off, shows more gray than creme-yellow.

I remember my Gramma mixing up three poundcakes or

loaves of buttery bread at a time in this bowl.

Sadly it has the beginnings of a crack now---It's 80 some years old, so I only use it for display.

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Back to this bowl in the front, not sure who this belonged to. My mom picked up early American stoneware pottery: bowl, crocks, pitchers, salters, and jugs. This one is unglazed on the outside with molded impressions on the sides and bottom, and glazed on the inside with a white/cream glaze.

This bowl is about 6" across and a bit of a mystery.

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Despite all the molded information on the bottom of this bowl, 'Trade Mark Registered US Patent Office', I was unable to narrow down the maker. Potteries were allowed to trademark their wares by registering with the US Patent Office after 1842. From the flourish script style of this piece, I would place this late 19th century or early 20th.

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However the name is not clear, possibly Savillo or either ...avillo or ...aville, ...avitto, or ...avitte with a script first letter that is nearly bare, could be an H, S, G, D ??? the figure above could be an eagle or a top of a squash/pumpkin. A worker was simply too enthusiastic

sponging the bottom and hid its source forever, unless someone can spot this.

Potteries came and went fast before the largest factories took over, as our country grew.

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On unmarked stoneware and creamware utility pieces, the most important step to finding out the maker is the clay color and texture. The type of glaze, shape and design will help to determine age. For instance gray and brown stoneware fell out of favor early in the 20th century,

when lighter bodied clays began to be used.

A source for basic identification is this link: American Pottery.

I hope you learned a little something NEW.

But, our OLD Grannys' bowls are simply, priceless.

Always, thanks for stopping by,