Small Black Pottery Pitcher

Trying to read the faint writings on the bottom but no luck. Any suggestions?

 

It's trying to look like Blackware pottery from New Mexico. It may be a Mexican knock off.

 

I agree. It looks like they painted over the original design.

 

I would not say painted but black glaze over green.

 

I'm not seeing Mexico on the bottom; it might have been a pottery class piece, or a factory emulating the Southwestern design. Those three stilt marks on the base don't jibe with Mexico either.

 

What I was able to do was next to impossible.....sorry...the blue is only slightly more readable....but still pretty illegible.....

 

I bought about 50 small jugs and pitcher jugs of various shapes but all about this size. It was a collection of souvenir liquor bottles mostly from the south west. Many of them were little pitchers with corks. Some worth $50 a piece. This collector had recorded the dates on each bottle 30's- 40's.

 

I'd try dusting it with flour and blowing off the excess to see if the filled in letters were easier to read.

 

Flour won’t work. It’s a glossy surface and the writings are flat.