Mystery Majolica

I know this is a long shot, but I'm looking for my grandmother's majolica, or something close, for sentimental reasons. The pieces have disappeared and I'm left with only my recollections and have not been able to find on the web. She had a serving set of tureens, covered dishes, and bowls that had a brick red glaze over white ?? china maybe - they were fairly light and thin. The glaze was brushed on as I recall and there were brush marks visible. The pieces were decorated with crabs and seaweed of a very fine and detailed work. The larger ones had feet of mussels, and some had mussel handles. Everything that I have found on the web is of a much rougher, cruder style of work and lack the delicacy and fine detail of these dishes. The family had ties with France and Japan and those could be likely places of origin. I'd appreciate any thoughts.

 

Any photo's off the web, or family pics that show the correct pattern....even close...would help us help you search for them..!

Welcome to the site !

 

Have you done an image search of pallissy wares? They tend to be more detailed and I believe that style was originally French. Maybe, brain's been a bit rusty.

 

Sorry, Palissy.

 

There are some Fitz and Floyd pieces that turn up that sound similar with the brick red and white. Particularly a soup tureen as "Catch of the Day".

 

Just trying to get an idea what you might be describing. Is it anything like this from a California pottery even though the color scheme isn't right?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Cal...407409?hash=item1ebb100231:g:yYwAAOSwvg9XbaVp

 

No really even close. The details are not nearly finely worked enough and the container parts were themselves smooth without detail other than red glaze..

 

Thanks for the quick succession of suggestions. The Fitz and Floyd are on the right track. I looked at the catch of the day tureen. In comparison it is actually a bit more -florid? than grandma's. So that kind of fine detail, but not so much of it. As I recall the actual bowl part of tureen, pots and such were themselves plain without any pattern. Just the red glaze brushed on over white pottery, and crabs, shells and seaweed clumps for handles, lids, and feet.
Lisa

 

https://goo.gl/images/Ta8gjf

 

https://goo.gl/images/7hn9WB

 

I have no idea if I did that right. Please let me know if the links work right. Thanks.

 

Without any sort of picture, it's hard to know. I'm not finding any soup sets that are painted red. This capodimonte tureen is the closest I came to what you describe.

 

Thanks for the images. The capodimonte tureen is actually the closest. It has really detailed shells with the plain container. This looks like a good direction to go in. Even if I don't ever find the exact thing, that is the style that I am looking for.