Antique Mochaware

The use of cable patterns on mochaware is an English invention created around 1810.

An attractive machine turned Mocha mug with broad bands of herringbone rouletting and slip-decorated bands of yellow, blue, and black. The handle terminals are particularly well fo...

A slip covered, machine turned Mocha jug with broad bands of light blue and thin lines of black at the top and bottom. The center with slip cup decoration in white, black and orange ...

This jug is part of our mixed earths and Mochaware collection.

An English Mochaware mug, machine turned, with herringbone bands of light blue above and below an overall design of dashes, diamond shapes, straight and wavy lines painted in black

Further decorated with straight and wavy lines of inlaid engine turning black slip. Mochaware is turned on a lathe. However, the lathe operator has the freedom to make each piece o...

An exceptional Mochaware jug with a wide band of light burnt orange slip molded in an elegant tall shape and decorated with vertical tree-like dendritic designs rising from a horizon...

A quart capacity Mocha Ware mug designed with inlaid engine turning and slip banding. Made of Pearlware decorated with horizontal stripes of light brown slip above and below six rows...

A large mochaware barrel shaped pitcher made of pearl-glazed creamware in the early 19th century.

Dimensions: 4.75" tall x 3.25" diameter Condition: Excelent Price: $1630 Background of Dendritic Decoration on Mochaware: The seaweed-like pattern results from a dynamic process in w...

No two mochaware pieces are the same. Each potter made his own choices in color and design.

A great deal of English Mochaware was exported to early America where it was everyday pottery.

This mochaware tankard has a rare design of white five quill and dot trailed slip decoration.

Double bands of dark brown frame the cable decoration. Mochaware is decorated on a lathe* (see Background of Mochaware below).

Quart size Mochaware mug. England, circa 1820. A beautiful tall mug, decorated with the engine turning dashes of inlaid black slip, bands of speckled baby blue, and light brown slip.

Mochaware bowl made in England. Decorated with brown "trees" over the bright orange slip.

For an image of a mug with similar decoration and further discussion of inlaid rouletted mochaware see: "Mocha and related dipped wares", by Jonathan Rickard pg. 37 fig. 54.    

A mochaware pottery jug decorated with multicolored slip, dots.

It is decorated across the top with rouletted bands covered in a blue slip and a large field of gray-brown slip which, is further decorated with mochaware "Trees." The unpainted embl...

T.his is an Imperial Quart mocha ware mug. The mug was made in England in a style that was popular on the European Continent. It has rouletted bands covered in a blue slip and a larg...

Mocha ware Pitcher. Made in England, circa 1810. Decorated with light and dark brown slip and slip trailing with a single cream color cup with four quills. The strong contrast betwee...

For a discussion of the use of quills on mochaware, see J. Rickard "Mocha and related dipped wares 1770-1939" pgs 88-94.

A mochaware pitcher with both cable and wavy line decoration.

This mochaware pitcher was designed to hold a pint of beer or lager.

WHY WE LOVE IT: A perfect combination of form and decoration We are delighted to offer this mochaware quart mug. Made in England, circa 1825 it is a masterpiece of mochaware.

A Mochaware jug decorated with three color cable design on a barrel form.

Decorated with green glazed reeded bands, bands of black and brown slip, and inlaid and engine turning into the body with black slip in a design of dots and dashes, circa 1815 Dime...

This rare creamware mochaware bowl has a thin yellow band of impressed decoration around the top edge.

The body turned and rouletted with plain bands, reeding and a Greek key design with a brown slip ground. The large cup with two double twist reeded handles with oak leaf terminals.

This mochaware pitcher has three broad bands of slip-decorated color: two bands of dark tan frame a band of light blue.

Small Mochaware mug made in England, circa 1820. Decorated with two bands of black engine-turned diamonds and bands of brown slip.

Why we love it: The color! Quart size Mochaware mug. The mug was decorated with bands of a slip in three colors of brown.

Price: $ 880 Background of Mochaware: Mochaware pottery is slip-decorated, lathe-turned, earthenware with bands of colored slip applied to buff-colored or white bodies.

Jonathan Rickard is a renowned collector of mochaware, and the author of "Mocha and related dipped wares."

Price: $760 Background of Mochaware: Mochaware pottery is slip-decorated, lathe-turned, earthenware with bands of colored slip applied to buff-colored or white bodies.

A mochaware pitcher decorated with bands of light blue and black slip and further decorated with a three-color cable decoration.

Miller Collection #306 (with paper label on the underside) An exceptional mochaware mug with rare combed-down slip decoration.

The managers of mochaware factories often only specified the style of the piecework but gave each turner some freedom regarding the choice of design and colors.

An exceptionally large and rare mid-19th century English mocha ware bowl with an everted lip. Decorated on the inside with a remarkable three color cable of dark brown, light brown a...

Mocha ware bowl. Made in England, circa 1840. Decorated with three-color cable of light brown, black and medium blue on an olive green ground. Dimensions: Diameter 6.5" x 3.25" tal...

Mocha ware bowl with cat's eye decoration, England, circa 1820 The bowl has green glazed rouletting, broadband of blue slip and thinner bands of light and dark brown slip. The blue b...

Made in England circa 1810, this mochaware pitcher is decorated with "Trees" and "Seaweed" It is molded in an elegant shape with an extra-wide mouth, probably made this way so that p...

A mochaware pitcher with cable and trailed dot decoration was made in England, circa 1810.

A mochaware mug made in England, circa 1820. The mug is made of pearl-glazed creamware.

A Mochaware pitcher made of pearl-glazed creamware in England, circa 1820.

This elegant English Mochaware mug, made around 1815, is decorated with both broad and narrow bands of slip in shades of light and midnight brown, alternating in precise rhythm aroun...

A very pretty early mocha ware pitcher. Made in England, circa 1800. Decorated with bands of light and dark brown and engine turned dots inside a band of dark brown. For an image of ...

This wonderful pitcher is decorated with bands of light blue, and light and dark brown. In the band of dark brown is a three-color cable decoration. Small but important detail on thi...

Provenance: From The D H & S E Miller Collection We are pleased to offer this large antique mochaware pitcher made in England circa 1830. This large, barrel-shaped, mochaware pitch...

Price: $2400 History of Mochaware Mochaware was first made in England in the late 1700s and continued to be produced in the first half of the 19th century.

A Mochaware pitcher with bands of light blue and midnight brown slip decoration made in England circa 1820.

Made in England circa 1800, this exquisite mug is decorated with three milk chocolate-colored slip bands, each band with midnight brown "seaweed" over the slip. The brown bands are h...

We are excited to offer this mocha ware bowl with dipped fan decoration. Made in England, circa 1800. This bowl is one of our rarest and best pieces. The bowl has a medium brown slip...