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Beautiful Newcomb Collage vase carved with trees and moss with moon background .Marked in Bottom NC and artist

Doulton stoneware jar and cover in form of an owl, Marked for Mark V. Marshall, Dated 1883. A striking tobacco jar and cover in the form of an owl with diamond pattern designs acoss the body and eyes like daisy's. Dimensions: 7 1/2 inches high (19.05cm) high See Wiener Museum of Decorative Arts, "What a Hoot Newsletter, July 16,2022By Louise Irvine, "A Parliament of Owls In Victorian times, owls were popular as functional items for gentlemen’s studies, including tobacco jars, match holders, jugs and lamps. Doulton artist, Mark V. Marshall, created stylized stoneware jars with swivel heads referencing the owl’s uncanny ability to rotate its head to 270 degrees left or right. Marshall worked originally with the Martin Brothers who made several owl jars as part of their range of anthropomorphic birds. Robert Wallace Martin’s character birds with removable heads in turn inspired British studio potters, Andrew Hull and David Burnham Smith." Mark V. Marshall (1842-1913) Mark V. Marshall: Defining the Original ......Marshall, like George Tinworth, trained at the Lambeth School of Art. From there, he went on to work at a local stonemasons yard. Here, he carved decorations for neo-gothic churches. For a brief period, he worked for the Martin Brothers, art potters whose London workshop represented the changes from Victorian to more modern ceramics. They specialized in eccentric designs and were known for their famous birds. These early experiences shaped Marshall’s taste for weird and wonderful Doulton designs, like his reptiles and dragons which circle his vases, and the grotesque masks which embellish his jugs. It was during this period that his unique style of fantastic animals, sometimes half hidden in foliage, established a pattern of decorative art for him. Indeed, many of his pieces bring to mind the medieval cathedral builders and their stone and wooden carvings of imaginary animals and caricatures of people. His work includes one example where a strange dragon-like creature climbs around the vase with its young ones hiding in the foliage. Doulton Marshall joined Doulton in 1874, and he brought his very personal style with him. His early vases (and there are many of them) tend to have fanciful animals sculpted in high relief perhaps hiding amongst the leaves. But he was influenced by the recent discoveries made at the time – eg by Charles Darwin, who had published his “Origin of the Species” in 1859. He, too, was fascinated by the relationship between animals and humans. He produced items showing animals dressed as humans, such as the two fully-dressed rabbits facing opposite ways on opposite sides of a container in his “The Waning of the Honeymoon”. He also drew on literature, notably Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. He produced stoneware pieces inspired by Tenniel’s illustration for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass...

A pair of large Arts & Crafts vases hand-painted by Clarissa Ault circa 1890. This pair of Arts & Crafts pottery vases were hand-painted by Clarissa Ault, daughter of English cera...

Beautiful Anna Francis Simpson decorated large bowl marked JL 98, and also JM potter, Joseph Meyer.

Mugly NYC is a Brooklyn based ceramic studio specializing in richly textured sculptural clay and porcelain that evoke the poetics of the handmade. This piece was handmade in 2022 ...

A beautiful American Arts & Crafts Rookwood floral vellum pottery bowl decorated by Mary Grace Denzler (1892-1991), Cincinnati, Ohio. Earthenware body with a matte vellum glaze. Shap...

Elegant blue-purple mug by Van Briggle Pottery. This color is uncommon - most of these pieces were made in a turquoise color. Finished by Clara Beyers (1989-1997). Glazed by either A...

This is a large green apple color Russell Wright style “Casual California” pottery teapot. It is shaped as an Alladin lamp. It is hallmarked below the base with the above name and Ca...

Vintage Mid Century ceramic Mortar and Wood Pestle, Made in Italy Traditional hand-crafted vintage Italian footed mortar in white ceramic with tile pattern...

Antique Arts & Crafts Rookwood art pottery vase offers stylized collar, matte glaze finish and signed base, circa 1926 Measures: 9.5" height x ...

A beautifully and inventively made English Royal Doulton trompe l'oeil pottery pitcher, English, circa 1880, made of glazed ceramic, but designed, in every detail, to resemble a copp...

Handsome collection of six vintage 20th century vases. One each of Abingdon, RumRill, Gonder, and Van Briggle, and two of Gladding McBean. They are all in wonderful vintage condition with no chips, cracks, or chiggers that we have seen. Please see photos. We are selling these as a set of six, circa mid-20th century. Even though, and maybe because, each one of these vases is outstanding by itself…we have put them together in a collection just for you. And are they ever spectacular. There are three tall and narrow vases. The first one is a gorgeous matte dusty pink fluted fan vase by Abingdon. The second is by Gonder with a rather lily of the valley design and a fabulous gloss gray glaze on its exterior and a beautiful pink interior. The third is a double handled turquoise by Gladding McBean. The next three are short bulbous vases more like rose bowls. The first of these is a turquoise Van Briggle reticulated philodendron leaf bowl. The second is a creamy white ribbed bowl by RumRill. And the last is urn shape by Gladding McBean with a turquoise exterior and a creamy white interior. Each is signed and a wonderful treasure. We love the way they look in a group, but you may want to scatter them about for individual touches of delight. Just make them yours! Measures: • Pink Abingdon Vase...