Creamware Folk Art

Pearlware pottery mocha jug with seaweed and earthworm design, circa 1830 The mocha jug with a central band of ochre with a double earthworm design. The ...

Mocha large tureen and cover with earthworm design on ochre ground, circa 1800-1820. The cover tureen with blue handles and finials is decorated with a wide central band of ochre...

With a beautifully worn, glossy finish, this petite cream ware cylindrical vessel is a wonderful example of Maya pottery. The delicate vessel is etched...

I have always wanted one of these. I'm thrilled to have found it. This Leeds Pottery stallion has a wonderful face with beautiful eyes. Large creamware enamel-painted horses are rare. Leeds made the largest of the creamware horses. Our horse is 16.75 inches tall x 14.75" long. A similar example can be seen in Leeds Museums and Art Galleries (Temple Newsam House) and was featured in an exhibition during an exhibition that ran from June 1- October 30, 2005, in "The Leeds Pottery 1770 1881". Condition: Excellent with light craquelure in the glaze Price: $9,600 Our horse is cream-colored with an orange harness and a full bushy brown tail. The figure is finely modeled: he stands proudly with his head slightly turned to the right, wearing a halter, the lead line laid across his back. His tail was neatly applied, swinging onto one hind leg. The top of the base is a mottled green within a molded stiff-leaf border glazed in manganese. On his belly and underneath the bottom are two unglazed patches where the model was held up during the firing process. Dealers in equestrian feed, medicine, and tack used large pottery horses in their display windows, like those seen here, to draw in customers. Examples can be found in the Leeds City Museum, the Yorkshire Museum, and the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum. The original Leeds Pottery factory closed around 1849-50. These prominent figures of horses were made for window displays in saddlers and tack stores, for dealers trading in horse equipment...

A collection of outstanding English Mochaware mugs and pitchers. The four mugs and three pitchers represent a variety of design which shows the indivi...

A naive figure of a pearlware horse standing on an oblong grassy green base. The figure is well modeled and simply decorated with a sponged decoration ...

Early Staffordshire Pottery Cat, Early 19th century. The large whimsical cat with brown and iron-red sponging sits on its hind quarters...

Rare early creamware model of a pet squirrel, ralph wood type, circa 1765-1780. The pet squirrel is press moulded and is modeled with its paws hol...

English pottery creamware plate of an American ship, circa 1785-1800. The circular creamware plate with a slight well is decorated with a black and w...

The hound-head creamware stirrup cup with unusual decoration of large splotches producing a charming, folky look. Reference: Stirrup cups, used traditionally for toasts to the hunt after the riders were mounted, had no need for a foot. The vessels represented the animals involved in the sport with fox and hound...

Mocha pottery tankard, early 19th century.     

A remarkable Wedgwood & Co. creamware bowl with a printed British ship in the interior with hand colouring to flag and hull. The exterior with scenes of the Birth of Venus after Francois Boucher (now in the Wallace Collection) and of Neptune on his sea-chariot pulled by sea horses with a triton preceding him blowing on a conch. There is also a print of a man and women dancing as a fiddler plays. In the final panel there is also a printed poem within a rococo frame which reads: He haftes unto his native Shore, Where dwells fweet joy and reft His lovely Sufan's fmiles implore To crown and make him blest; Now all his tiols and dangers blesft; And Sufan's love remains; The honest Tar is bleft at laft, Her fmiles reward his pains This is the last stanza of a poem called the Dauntless Sailor. The song is found in The Columbian Songster Being a Large Collection of Fashionable Songs for Gentlemen and Ladies in a Series of Numbers, printed by Nathaniel Heaton. Mark: Impressed Wedgwood & Co. Provenance: Jonathan Horne, London with price tag of $2,175.00 (old label on base) Reference: A Celebration of the Sea, Rina Prentice, Page 107, 167 for a Liverpool creamware...