Featured Grotesque pottery tobacco ? jar

The $18 one above appears to be Bankoware for sure!

 

interesting, never heard of that before, thanks

isnt that one at the bottom middle, sloth from the goonies !!

 

I’m on my phone and also with terrible eyesight but it could be from a mold with hand touched accenting.
I’ll have a better look later on a full size screen.
It looks very familiar, I’m sure I’ve seen it before.

 

Thanks for your help with this, Anund, much appreciated. The bottom looks mold cast, but the rest doesn't look cast to me. Could it just have some hand working to the clay body, even if it's mold cast and not a one of a kind?

 

Here’s the one I’ve seen before, similar yet very different.

 

yeah, thats very close, especially with the shared eyes, and lid

was there any info with the pic ?

 

None that I could see helping.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/19thc-tobacco-jar-multiple-chinese-138430477

 

yeah sounds a bit vague really, still a great help though thanks

 

Funny who decides what's ugly & what's not - my roommate couldn't help but blurt out how ugly my new face cloths are... they're grey!

But that's ok, more for us "ugly lovers" - she won't be using my clean cloths! Hehe

Same with our fugly junk! yay!

 

Hey - look what I found right here on antiquers

Posted by @Bookahtoo
Banko ware pottery nodder
I see it spelled as both one word and two.



It looks like a low-fired bisque(?) that gets dirty pretty easily and absorbs water, so can get worn out over the years. I do think @charlie cheswick 's is probably same type of ware, if not Bankoware.

 

Trocadero!

Bankoware has been around since the 18th Century, according to Wikipedia

 

Darn antiques! Even more reason to go searching for stuff I totally do not need!

I do like your taste in fugly tho, Scoutshouse! <3

 

I could sure use a hat tippin' emo right about now, @antidiem - Back at you!

 

<3

Lack of heart emoticons prevail! <3

 

YEAH - wtH are the <3s ???

I have a felling you and I are similarly challenged in the emo world

I use


<3
:/

I use the "angel" and "hilarious" emos here - I can't decipher the other adorable emos available...

Anything in between sweet and adorable is open to interpretation and therefore useless, in my opinion

 

LOL YES EXACTLY THOSE SAME ONES SCOUTSHOUSE!!^^^ <3 <3 <3

MY eyesight is so poor that I can really only hit the "smiling cat" icon here accurately, any other emoticon and I'm out of my element!!

 

Why is there no down to this up? ^^^

 

There is: v lowercase "V"

BATS! v^v v^v v^v

 

VVVVVVVVVVV

Thanks, could it be any simpler?

Thanks - like we're all learning code!