Featured Finds Thread

Pat,

Here are two very similar smaller baskets. So yes, maybe the cover for my piece is a marriage...........or maybe someone had the cover made for the basket???? Not sure, but they both look great together.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/A-Superb-Vin...a-Basket-Woven-Geometric-Bamboo-/370951958268

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Tin...067?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item41851f9653

 

Thanks, girls!

Sharona, the mark on your "fat jug" appears to be a thunderbird. Not sure who that potter is.

Can I see some better images of your lobed, gilt-decorated coral-red bowl? Can't really tell from the images, but it looks like it might be a good one.

I like the Roseville piece, Japanese bamboo ikebana in the form of a carp and the brass and enamel Chinese teacaddy.

 

Does anyone know anything about "redware"? Are those antique redware pieces I posted?

 

I was serious about these folks (mother & daughter) selling great, great grandma's portrait. I asked the mother "is the your mother"? She said "no, it's my great, great grand. She's who all this stuff belongs to". Then I jokingly asked "is it for sale"? She said "yeah, $20 bucks!" I couldn't believe she said that! I asked her why would she sell her grams portrait? and she and the daughter both said "she scares us!". I wasn't going to purchase it, but thought it would be good to have an image of the person who these pottery pieces were once owned by.

 

That is so crazy it would never be a option....some just don't care I guess. Can't imagine selling grandma although she was mean
Why do so many of the 1900's images look like crazy people? That lady looks mean. Several of the tin types I got the women especially look mean or crazy and sometimes both

 

Thanks for the help Nuff havn't been looking for most of this yet. I was glad to see China and not india on it. It is a little beat up though....
I was stalking that roseville lol
Here is the coral color bowl

 

Jpg/Nuff, the "red" one is probably redware, or possibly
North Carolina pottery, but the lighter one doesn't look like it to me at all. From what I have gathered the past few years, the clay in redware is actually red. I don't have a ton of experience in pottery, though, so definitely wait for others. I like your Japanese basket with the lid.
Sharona, you've got some really nice, interesting items as well! I like your fish basket a lot.
Marko, that coral necklace is a great find, as is Johnny's cool pin.

 

Thank you Moon! The red pot is nice looking

 

Agreed! I would never think to sell my family members photos. Never!

The portrait doesn't look scary to me. It's dark, but that's how most of these images looked in those days. It took great skill and money (these weren't cheap) to paint such a portrait like this, especially in reverse on glass.

 

The bowl is Japanese, mid-20th C. by: Kutani.

Thanks for posting the images.

 

Thanks, Moon!

I know next to nothing about American pottery.

I was striving to ID the red one. I think it's an urn(?) and that band of "chatter marks" near the rim and neck is called: 'coggle'(?)

The other with green glaze I think is Massachusetts(?) redware? Google images show a lot of parcel-green glazed redware from that state. But I have know idea.

 

If the lighter one is redware I will have learned something new. I only ever thought redware was red. Typical redware looks like the "red" one you have, and that's what it most likely is, unless it's North Carolina pottery. It would be good for those on here who know more about American pottery than I do to see the bases on both items.

 

Please educate me then, if it tests as 10 or 14K on the surface, how does one know it is not gold throughout? Weight or how it looks, or just by experience?

 

The lighter one appears to be white and brown slip decorated with parcel-green glaze. I'm thinking it has to be a flower pot. I haven't looked up the definition for the term redware, but I assume it's a generic(?) term used for this type of pottery, similar to the term used for, Chinese Yixing purple clay. The clay isn't actual "purple", but more so crimson, brown or yellow.

Here are images of the bases. The one has I believe the original asking price of $4.50 penciled on the base, and the other has illegible incised initials near the footrim.

 

If this bronze flaming aureole and makaras sells for 10% of the priced realized on this piece
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/...5964&sid=1c148a09-2e25-40f4-b7f7-0c2c7734a0f9 I'll be a happy camper!

 

Johnny, I'm like you. That Pin rings a bell to me, but I can't remeber exactly why. I think it is a real treasure, because if something rings a bell to me there is usually a good reason I wanted to remember it. Could I have seen one on Antiques roadshow maybe?
For some reason it makes me think of the guy that was famous for making Mobiles. I have no idea why though, and I can't for the life of me remember his name.

 

You mean Calder?

 

I think that's who Bdigger means, Alexander Calder.

It looks like a vintage modernist Finnish piece to me, but WDIK.

 

These pearls were found at the estate sale for $5 the first day. The ladies said they were not real, they are, marked MKD, sterling findings:



I put testing acid directly on the ruby pendant. Bale tests as 10k, piece tests as 14k.

 

Odds and ends, yard sale finds , oval earrings are elephant ivory set in goldwashed 800 silver, has a hallmark I can't read. Taxco silver bracelet, WRE gold-filled bracelet, liquid sterling earrings, porcelain earrings, amber pin and bracelet set in sterling.