Dos Vases

Two little mystery vases. Is the brown one a Derbyshire glaze? The home had a bunch of that teal green like arts & crafts era glazed pottery. This color isn’t that but maybe from the same era? First time I’ve seen redware with a glaze like this but then again I haven’t handled all that much pottery. It’s very heavy/dense for its size. That’s good I suppose if you have a tall bouquet. Looks like maybe a portly impressed mark on base of green one. Brown unglazed. Brown a snide over 4”. Green about 8”. Think I got them $9 total. I’m happy with the green one for that even if it’s not of any value. Any insights?

 

I don't see green? Looks butter yellow from here. Nice pots, though...Thanks!

 

I think you mis-read, Whit.

"The home had a bunch of that teal green like arts & crafts era glazed pottery. This color isn’t that but maybe from the same era?"

 

Thanks...I'm so easily amused...er, confused.

 

It is actually more of a green than yellow. The lighting made it look a bit odd in the photos. I see the butter yellow mentioned. Kind of a hard color to capture. Here it is next to that more classic arts and crafts era green glaze I was talking about. Not sure if this photo makes it look less yellow or more yellow but it really is a green I think. Not incredibly Far away from a celadon shade, though not the most classic shade of celadon.

 

Red clay bottom on the large one makes me think Southern US origin. No idea on the other one.

 

I had that same thought re: the red clay.

 

The smaller one could be southeast asian -- shape is very like pottery wine jugs/vessels.

 

Interesting. I’ll keep that in mind when I do some more poking around on it! I just did a cursory search with SE Asia and didn’t come up with anything very similar but I’ll delve deeper. In good news you helped me solve a much older mystery that I was much more curious about. I’ve had a pretty little potted vessel for years that seems to have been deaccessioned from a SE Asian museum. I never knew what it was but loved looking at it. I planned to find out some day but never got around to it. I bought it just several months into my foray in antiques. Turns out it’s Thai or Cambodian, likely Thai from the Sawankhalok kiln. Looks like they were made around the 13th-17th century or so. This is bad news for the value of my piece as they seem to only bring $50-$200 or so each. It’s amazing, you can buy Thai pottery from that era for next to nothing. It’s nice to know what it is though. Mine looks similar to the jar back left of this photo.

 

Sort of like this, but yours may just be a simple vase: https://www.google.com/search?q=Rus...g&ei=M9vmY7GzCsLk0PEPlZC3-A8&bih=641&biw=1216