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Material: Pearlware
English Mocha Pottery Pearlware Earthworm Jug
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Mocha Pottery Pearlware Earthworm Jug,
Circa 1800-20
The pearlware mocha jug has three bands of blue slip and four of a white ground with two red-brown lines. The blue slip...
Category
Early 19th Century English Folk Art Antique Pearlware Folk Art
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
English Mocha Pottery Pearlware Cat's Eye Design Jug
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Mocha Pottery Pearlware Cat's Eye Jug,
Circa 1800-1820
The pearlware mocha jug has a band of tri-color cat's eye designs in brown, orange and blue with a series of band's a...
Category
Early 19th Century Folk Art Antique Pearlware Folk Art
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
Antique English Stafforshire Pearlware Figure of Andromache & Hector's Urn
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique pearlware figurine.
Depicting Andromache embracing (and weeping over) Hector's urn that is supported by a plinth.
Decorated in polychrome.
Simply a wonderful ear...
Category
Early 19th Century British Georgian Antique Pearlware Folk Art
Materials
Pearlware
Pottery Pearlware Sponged Spirit Flasks Modeled in Form of Boots, Scottish
Located in Downingtown, PA
British pottery pearlware sponged spirit flasks modeled in form of boots,
Scottish, circa 1840-1850.
Wonderfully folky pair of unusual flasks sponged in mottled colors of blue, pin...
Category
Mid-19th Century Scottish Early Victorian Antique Pearlware Folk Art
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
English Pottery Pearlware Figures of Sailors
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Pottery Pearlware Sailor Figures,
Circa 1820.
A lovely pair of English pottery pearlware figure groups each depicting a sailor resting on his sea trunk...
Category
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Pearlware Folk Art
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
$3,950 / set
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19th Century Scale Boat Hull Model & Line Plans Naval Sailor Maritime Folk Art
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Japanese Okinawa Ceramic Showa Period Awamori Sake Pottery Dachibin Hip Flask
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A wonderful hand painted and decorated traditional Okinawan ceramic awamori/sake flask, also known as a dachibin. These handcrafted pieces were originally designed to be carried and worn against the hip, hence the curved shape.
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This intriguing redware figure was crafted in 400 A.D. from the ancient Teotihuacan region of Mexico. Earthenware figurines were made in great abundance throughout Teotihuacan's history. After 250 A.D. objects made from clay increased dramatically, serving a wide variety of purposes and functions from religious rituals to burial offerings.
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19th Century Maritime Nautical Sailor Folk Art Carved Cassia Pod Nut Curiosity
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