Clowning Around with Red Wing Stoneware

Red Wing Stoneware Company, one of the largest producers of utilitarian pottery and stoneware in the United States, has been an iconic name in Minnesota’s history since 1877. That legacy is still going strong with collectors, who were eager to snap up pieces offered in a July 10 Red Wing Dinnerware, Art Pottery & Stoneware […]

Amphora Marks

The word “Amphora” refers to art pottery made by several companies in Turn-Teplitz, Bohemia (now Trnovany, Czech Republic), in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It is also the trade name used by one of the companies, Riessner, Stellmacher and Kessel. Here are marks for five companies that made Amphora pottery in Turn-Teplitz. Marks shown […]

Dutch Art Pottery

Art pottery took the world by storm in the late 1800s. Artists from countries around the globe began experimenting with new shapes, designs, glazes and finishing techniques. A recent auction at Bonhams in London included hard-to-find Dutch pottery. The Netherlands brought many different styles and techniques to pottery throughout the Art Nouveau period. Initially, Dutch […]

George Ohr Vase

Sometimes unknown artists turn into hidden gems. George Ohr, a potter from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, had a unique style that combined controlled technique with an eccentric sensibility, but he sold very little and stopped making pottery around 1908. His pieces were sold at fairs as souvenirs. He was forgotten until the […]

Kovels On Antiques & Collectibles October 2021 Newsletter Now Available

Kovels On Antiques & Collectibles newsletter is available as a print subscription, or as a digital version that is included in the Kovels Knowledge and Kovels All Access memberships. Start your Kovels Knowledge Free Trial now or login. Kovels’ October 2021 newsletter features Halloween collectibles, art pottery by husband-and-wife team Edwin and Mary Scheier, antique […]

Comic Books Prices Have Been on the Rise

We found an old article in a 1994 Money Magazine that made us wonder. Almost everything collectible at that time went up and down in price. Only two things were able to go up over the 14 years (1980–1994) they studied—1960s comic books and American art pottery from the 1880s to 1920s. Looking back now […]

Mocha Pottery Attracts Collectors 

If you told a peasant of 18th-century England that his common mug would sell for thousands of pounds someday, he’d probably be surprised. Earthenware pottery with designs made from colored liquid clay known as mocha or mochaware has transformed from an everyday pottery of the past to a popular sought after collectible today. A recent […]

Minton

Thomas Minton, after working for other potters, started his own firm in Stoke-on-Trent in 1793. The family business made a wide variety of tablewares and decorative pieces. By 1846 it was making Parian ware, and later it made majolica, tiles, bone china, and art pottery. From 1873 to about 1912, the name on the mark […]