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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 66345, member: 111"]Agree with Don that the shards look to be china (a few seem to have bits of blue), and that contacting Crocker might be helpful. I'm much more familiar with metals and may be totally off-base, but something about the shape of the bottle, the inlaid bits, the little flowers, scalloped bands and swags made me think of Mexico. Poked around a bit, not finding much, but the clip below, from a report on the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition mentions, "earthenware of red coarse body, inlaid with fragments of glazed pottery".</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]17122[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Old pottery shards with feldspar chips, mentioning other decorative elements and production into the 20th century: <a href="https://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/histarch/gallery_types/type_index_display.asp?type_name=FELDSPAR-INLAID%20REDWARE" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/histarch/gallery_types/type_index_display.asp?type_name=FELDSPAR-INLAID%20REDWARE" rel="nofollow">https://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/histarch/gallery_types/type_index_display.asp?type_name=FELDSPAR-INLAID REDWARE</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A Mexican pitcher with a similar scalloped border and inlay of what the seller thinks is shell, I can't tell, perhaps feldspar, or maybe china shards too - given the mark, doubt there's much real age to this piece: <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/217765113/mexico-red-clay-pottery-marked-mejico" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/217765113/mexico-red-clay-pottery-marked-mejico" rel="nofollow">https://www.etsy.com/listing/217765113/mexico-red-clay-pottery-marked-mejico</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A similarly shaped Mexican water bottle: <a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Tonala-Burnished-Pottery-Vase-Water-Bottle-circa-1900-/171786146831?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_sacat%3D0%26_nkw%3D171786146831%26_rdc%3D1&nma=true&si=UpSDAzFkOKX667TL9gimJiWOfYo%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Tonala-Burnished-Pottery-Vase-Water-Bottle-circa-1900-/171786146831?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_sacat%3D0%26_nkw%3D171786146831%26_rdc%3D1&nma=true&si=UpSDAzFkOKX667TL9gimJiWOfYo%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Tonala-Burnished-Pottery-Vase-Water-Bottle-circa-1900-/171786146831?ru=http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=171786146831&_rdc=1&nma=true&si=UpSDAzFkOKX667TL9gimJiWOfYo%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557</a></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 66345, member: 111"]Agree with Don that the shards look to be china (a few seem to have bits of blue), and that contacting Crocker might be helpful. I'm much more familiar with metals and may be totally off-base, but something about the shape of the bottle, the inlaid bits, the little flowers, scalloped bands and swags made me think of Mexico. Poked around a bit, not finding much, but the clip below, from a report on the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition mentions, "earthenware of red coarse body, inlaid with fragments of glazed pottery". [ATTACH=full]17122[/ATTACH] Old pottery shards with feldspar chips, mentioning other decorative elements and production into the 20th century: [URL='https://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/histarch/gallery_types/type_index_display.asp?type_name=FELDSPAR-INLAID%20REDWARE']https://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/histarch/gallery_types/type_index_display.asp?type_name=FELDSPAR-INLAID REDWARE[/URL] A Mexican pitcher with a similar scalloped border and inlay of what the seller thinks is shell, I can't tell, perhaps feldspar, or maybe china shards too - given the mark, doubt there's much real age to this piece: [URL]https://www.etsy.com/listing/217765113/mexico-red-clay-pottery-marked-mejico[/URL] A similarly shaped Mexican water bottle: [URL='http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Tonala-Burnished-Pottery-Vase-Water-Bottle-circa-1900-/171786146831?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_sacat%3D0%26_nkw%3D171786146831%26_rdc%3D1&nma=true&si=UpSDAzFkOKX667TL9gimJiWOfYo%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557']http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Tonala-Burnished-Pottery-Vase-Water-Bottle-circa-1900-/171786146831?ru=http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=171786146831&_rdc=1&nma=true&si=UpSDAzFkOKX667TL9gimJiWOfYo%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557[/URL] ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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