North American Ceramics

19Thc Amazing pair of sponge ware pottery serving platters in fine condition.Notice they are in the smoke ring pattern.The condition are very good.Sold as a pair.

19th century Lewis Jones Pittston PA. Fine 3-gallon blue cobalt decorated stoneware crock. Stamped with maker’s mark. Hand Brisked cobalt floral decor...

This antique cheese server or dome is unsigned, but presumed to have originated from the United States and dates to approximately 1880 and done i...

19Thc Sponge ware soft paste water pitcher in fine condition.This pattern sponge is in a darker blue color.

Created in the late 1870s, this highly collected Griffin Smith & Hill Etruscan tea cup and saucer will be a fabulous addition to a current collection. The exterior of the cup and pla...

BENNINGTON POTTERY - Extra large antique brown spatterware bowl with molded rim - kiln stilt marks to the base - unsigned - United States - 19th century. Fair antique condition - ...

A Ceramic Art Company "Lenox" tankard circa 1895 decorated with scenes from Arthur Wesley Dow’s woodblock prints. 7.5” This china painted mug was made by Lenox and marked with the underglaze CAC Ceramic Art Company mark. It is decorated with three panels of “Ipswich Shanties” after the American Arts and...

This late 19th century glazed earthenware mug was crafted in the studios of Cincinnati Ohio's renowned Rookwood Pottery Company and has a traditional form with an ear-shaped handle having a thumb rest. The exterior of the piece is finished in standard glaze and features hand painted decoration executed by highly regarded artist William Purcell McDonald (1864-1931). The decor has an appealing wine harvest theme consisting of grape vines that snake across the surface. The vines are studded with leaves in various shades of green along with two dangling clusters of plump reddish grapes. McDonald's application of paint is slightly raised in places giving the image a dimensional quality. The mug is further ornamented with an ornate silver overlay manufactured by Gorham. The silver decoration covers the handle and rim and includes a series of large etched foliate scrolls and flowers that extend across the body. There is also an eye-catching latticed area that provides a strong visual contrast with the gentle curving motifs found on the other parts of the silver overlay. The underside of the mug has an impressed RP mark along with shape 422 and the letter W. It also carries the incised initials of the artist - W. P. McD - and the letter L. The underside of the silver foot rim is stamped Gorham Manufacturing Co. along with a hand engraved mark reading S 1274 S. This highly collectible Rookwood silver...

Rare 19th C mochaware mixing bowl w/spout.

19th C Mochaware milk pitcher. Very Rare pitcher.

Rare 19th C Spongeware Slop Bucket with Handle

1920's Holy water font with Lady of Guadalupe and angel in light green alabaster and agate with a beautiful translucent quality and the many colors that can be achieved from this spe...

19th C decorated stoneware crock with floral motif. 1 1/2 gallon crock.

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.

A fabulous antique ceramic crock in blue and cream with a lid. This rare serving dish features a wide-body and the original lid. The side of the ...

Each crock measure approximately 6 inches in diameter x 3.5 inches in height.

Early 19th century terracotta water jar from Norther Puebla, Mexico. Unusually wide format pot with large intact handles. The majority of the neck...

19th century sponge ware butter crock in very good condition.

Late 19th century, modeled in stoneware (wine jug), flanked by double handles, the top glazed deep brown, stamped "Louis Guarnieri 389 Swan Street, Buffalo, N.Y"., circa 1880-1920. This is a very nice early Stoneware Advertising Jug...

19thc stoneware jug from Newburry jug reads - Geo hunt Central supply store 95 Pleasant St Newbury Port.

19Thc yellow ware mocha blue seaweed pattern mixing bowl in pristine condition.

Cowden & Wilcox 2 Gal jug has a Classic blue cobalt fox glove design. Each end at the loop handles are brushed with cobalt blue. Beautiful salt glaze and gre...

Blue decorated crock Moore, Nichols Co. Crock, Williamsport, PA. Stoneware crock. Great condition. Deep blue floral pattern, 1850-1890.

This is a very early stone ware glazed piggy bank from New England. This is a handmade piggy bank in very good condition.

This handmade and painted butter crock was found in Pennsylvania and is in good condition with the exception of the old repairs to the lid. The base has n...

Cobalt blue painted pottery decorated floral stoneware handled jug. Measures: 9.5” high, 7” diameter.

This fantastic rare lady liberty and shield embossed sponge pottery pitcher is in fine as found condition. She is embossed on both sides of the stonewar...

This collection of five 19th century sponge ware pottery custard cups ate in good condition.

Salt glazed stone ware jar with "W Smith Stoneware New York" as a front stamp. Great size and great form. Gorgeous 7.25 tall.

These blue & white sponge or spatter ware cups & saucers set of six are in mint condition. (Total of 12 Pics. Set ) These were made around 1840-1860 and f...

This 19th century sponge ware pitcher with floral design in good condition.

19th century sponge ware shaving mug. This is the piece that is so hard to find in the wash bowl set.

Gorgeous Majolica by Griffen, Smith & Hill Etruscan Majolica large pitcher in shell and seaweed pattern. This pitcher is an unusually sought after s...

19th century sponge ware soft paste design sponge soft paste pitcher. The condition is very good and this is most unusual.

Collection of three 19th century spatter ware water pitchers in pristine condition. The shorter of the three is really quite unusual and is more of a desi...

This amazing collection of four 19th century sponge ware serving platters are in fantastic condition. These platters are so hard to find in pristine condition.

This fine example of unusual spongeware is in good condition with the original metal handle. The lid is also original to the piece.

Sponge ware ironstone pottery pie dish and serving plate.The condition is very good and color is fantastic shades of indigo blue. Selling the two pieces as a pair. Measures: 12.5 ...

Etruscan majolica dogwood pitcher in bark and vibrant navy with butterfly lip manufactured by Griffen, Smith and Hill of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, ...

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...

Ott & Brewer aesthetic blanc de chine pitcher, with patterned body and reptile handle. Stamped O & B.

This 19th century sponge ware mottled pottery potty with handle. This is in great condition.

This is an exceptional and rare 19th century Etruscan shell and seaweed decorated lidded offers an addition to any significant and important collecti...

FAPG 20247D John Bennett (1840-1907), New York Plaque with pink and blue phlox, circa 1881-1882 Earthenware, painted and glazed Measures: 14 7/8 in. diameter, 1 13/16 in. high Signed and inscribed (on the back): J B[monogram] ENNETT / E 24 NY. / MC [or] CM If the Herter Brothers was the most distinguished and successful cabinet making and decorating firm in New York in the 1870s-1880s, the transplanted Englishman John Bennett was probably the most gifted ceramicist working in New York in the Aesthetic period. (Bennett was included in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s landmark exhibition, In pursuit of beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement, in 1986–87, and Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen’s chapter, “Aesthetic Forms in Ceramics and Glass,” pp. 216–19, significantly informs this essay). Born in England, the son of a potter who worked in the Staffordshire district, Bennett came under the influence of John Sparkes, head of London’s Lambeth School of Art. Soon thereafter, he was hired by Henry Doulton of the eponymous firm to teach artisans there the new art of underglaze faience decoration, which was part of a revival of the sixteenth-century interest in hand-painted ceramics. A number of Bennett’s works for Doulton were shown in the Doulton display at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, and the considerable success enjoyed by Bennett and Doulton from an American audience undoubtedly played an important role in Bennett’s decision to leave Doulton and England and set up shop in New York in 1877. By the next year, he had already established a studio in New York, where he produced his own pottery in the tradition of the Arts & Crafts innovators, William Morris and William De Morgan, and also taught classes at the new Society of Decorative Art to the growing band of women who had taken up china painting, both professionally and avocationally. Bennett’s pottery developed a very serious following among students and collectors, and was offered for sale at such leading retail establishments as Tiffany & Company in New York. Typically, his work was brilliantly colored, with carefully drawn naturalistic flowers against a monochromatic background. Bennett’s fully developed American work, particularly pieces of larger scale, is exceedingly rare, as he worked in New York only from 1877 to 1883, in which year he withdrew to a farm in rural West Orange, New Jersey, where his production continued on a limited basis. He remained listed as a ceramicist there until 1889. While in New York City, Bennett maintained a studio at 412 East 24th Street. The present charger, boldly featuring pink and blue phlox, is signed by Bennett, and is inscribed “E 24 NY,” indicating its manufacture during Bennett’s time in New York. Although it is not dated, this piece is closely related stylistically to various dated pieces from 1881–82, which would place its production toward the end of Bennett’s New York years. Although we do not know whether Bennett worked out of this 24th Street studio from the outset, he was indeed working there by 1879 when he made (and signed, inscribed, and dated) a charger with white and red flowers now in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, which specifically points to “412 East 24 / NY” (acc. no. 1998.317). Additionally, the U.S. Census of 1880 lists Bennett as a ceramicist located at that same address, married to Mary Bennett with whom he had had six children. There are several other examples from Bennett’s time in New York City, which also give his studio address on East 24th Street, including a covered jar in cadmium yellow with indigo and green flowers made in 1881; an undated footed vase with lilac...

This is a group of three sponge ware vegetable bowls all in mint condition. The pair of bowls are 8.5" long x 6" wide. The third bowl is 6.5" wide x 9" long. These three bowls are so...