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Miniature salt glaze stoneware jug, c.1840

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

I love miniatures and was really excited to find this tiny two-toned floral sprigged pottery jug, made in Derbyshire, England in the mid-1800’s.

This little jug stands a mere 2″ tall and is made of stoneware with a salt glazed finish, which was fired at a high temperature to insure a glass-like, non-porous surface.

The original handle was replaced with an over scaled tin handle & strap, looking a bit out of proportion on this small jug.

This is what the original jug handle might have looked like had it not broken off.

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Dudson jasperware jug, c.1870

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

A large jasperware water jug with sprigged decoration, made by potter Richard Dudson in Stoke-on-Trent, England in the mid-nineteenth century. Jug stands 7-3/4″ tall.

Dudson ceramics pieces are often mistaken for the work of rival potter Josiah Wedgwood, which are similar in form, decoration and color.

The broken handle was replaced over one hundred years ago by a massive pewter handle & support straps, masking much of the sprigged cherubs decoration.

This jug with similar form and decoration shows what the original handle on my jug would have looked like.

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Prattware “Duke of York” jug, c.1800

Monday, March 15th, 2010

English commemorative pottery jug, stands 7-1/2″ tall.

Has embossed figures of the Duke of York and Prince Cobourg.

Broken handle was replaced with a basic tin replacement handle.

An original jug showing handle intact.

Photo courtesy of Aurea Carter Antiques

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English silver lustre teapot, c.1820

Monday, March 15th, 2010

English silver lustre glazed pottery teapot with faceted, beaded & gadrooned body, stands 5.75 inches high and is 9.5 inches long.

One of the most common inventive repairs is a teapot spout replacement tip or shield. This repair was made by wrapping a single triangular shaped piece of tin and soldiering in place.

Another view of the teapot with its replaced spout tip.

An almost exact example is shown with a more elaborate eagle’s head handle.

Photo courtesy of Cathcart’s Antiques

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Clews “Pittsfield Elm” plate, c.1825

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Spending my teenage years in a small town in the Berkshires meant frequent excursions to nearby Pittsfield, MA, home of three faded movie theaters, a large library and a Mexican restaurant. Once I remember seeing a “Pittsfield Elm” plate for sale in my parent’s antiques shop and feeling a sense of pride that a local tree was immortalized on a plate. This treasured pottery plate was made by James & Ralph Clews at Cobridge Works, Cobridge, Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, UK. They were made between 1818 and 1834 as a part of a highly collected line of Historical Blue Staffordshire pottery.

It has been held tightly together for over one hundred years with 5 flattened copper rivets, and measures 8-3/4″ in diameter.

This English pottery plate with deep cobalt blue transfer decoration is marked on the back WINTER VIEW OF PITTSFIELD MASS, CLEWS as well as impressed CLEWS WARRANTED STAFFORDSHIRE surrounding a crown.

The beloved “Old Elm” in Park Square, as seen in a 1855 engraving, was sadly cut down in 1861.

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Bachelor’s salt glaze teapot, c.1820

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Black glazed pottery “one cup” (aka “Bachelor’s”) teapot from England with scroll relief decoration, stands 3-1/2″ high and was made in the early 1800s.

A simple tin replacement handle was most likely made by a traveling tinsmith in the 1800s.

The intact handle on an identical teapot to mine shows what the original handle looked like.

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Mason’s Ironstone jug, c.1830

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

A Large English paneled body pottery jug, made in North Staffordshire, England in the early nineteenth century. The Mason family of potters traded under various styles at Lane Delph and Fenton from 1800-54. Charles James Mason patented the famous “PATENT IRONSTONE CHINA” in 1813. Jug measures 8″ high.

The bottom is stamped in cobalt blue “Fenton Stoneworks, no.306”, which dates this piece to 1825-40.

When the original handle broke off over one hundred years ago, a gracefully carved wood replacement handle was bolted on.

Missing chips were filled and carefully painted over to match floral design.

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Victoria and Albert jug, c.1840

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

English commemorative pearlware pottery jug from 1840, with transfer decoration portrait of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

Jug measures 7″ high and has a royal blue background with hand painted pink lustre and gilt floral ornamentation

A tin handle with thumb grip and strap replaces the original ornate handle, shown here with remaining sharp fragment at the bottom.

The tin strap conceals the royal couple’s identity.

Intact example showing the unmasked couple and original, more elaborate handle

Photo courtesy of Knotty Pine Antiques

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Mercury glass candle holders, c.1860

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Pair of candle holders with mercury-filled double-walled glass and cold painted with white enamel floral decoration. Mercury glass was first patented in 1849 in England, where it was often referred to as “poor man’s silver”.

I have never seen another example of mercury glass with an inventive repair. Someone did a fine repair job outfitting these broken candle holders, each measuring 6-3/4″ high, with silver painted wood bases.

The pair of bases are nicely painted, even on the bottoms.

Intact bases are shown below on this similar pair of 19th century French candlesticks.

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Toy cast iron cannon, c.1880

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

A well worn English miniature cannon from the late 19th century shows it was much loved for many years. A Victorian boy perhaps found this under his Christmas tree and played with it until the delicate base became detached, leaving the sturdy cannon barrel abandoned.

The boy’s father, grandfather, friend, or the boy himself must have whittled the crude base out of a piece of scrap wood and attached the iron barrel using two pieces of heavy wire. A coat of brown paint completed the repair and although the cannon looks nothing at all like the unbroken original, it is still highly functional and no doubt brought joy to the original owner.

Cannon in its new incarnation with replacement wood base measures 6-1/2″ long.

The underside reveals pitted metal wire and and an unfinished wood surface.

This toy cast iron ship’s signal cannon from the early 1800’s shows what the original base on my cannon might have looked like.

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