Mark Bassett (aka 'potterybooks') Vintage Arts,Decorative Art - catalog page 17

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Enamel Russian Scene Church Oak Frame Israel Arabic Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Decorative Art: Enamel: Pre 1970 item# 335973
click for details		Mark Bassett (aka 'potterybooks') 216-221-6025 $35.00
This approx. 5" t. x 5.5" art enamel is hand-painted porcelain, applied to a copper base. With the oak frame, it measures 8.75" t. x 9-1/8". Colors are mainly Prussian blue, magenta, pink, purple, and black on a white background. Scene depicts minarets and mosque type towers, making me think of Russia, and there is a yellow hand-painted artist signature, which appears to be in Cyrillic (although perhaps Hebrew or Arabic). ...click for details

Hyalyn Art Pottery Small Raymor Capri Lax Bowl 1950s Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Decorative Art: Ceramics: American: Pottery: Pre 1970 item# 330934
click for details		Mark Bassett (aka 'potterybooks') 216-221-6025 $75.00
This design is a streamlined 9" x 5-5/8" x 3" t. (overall length) with wooden handles, designed for Raymor as part of Hyalyn's 1953 Raymor Capri line, by designer Michael Lax, shape number not known. (This is according to Michael Pratt, of www.modish.net.) Glossy white porcelain-like glaze. No visible marks. The woode ...click for details

Hyalyn Art Pottery Pair Gun Salt/Pepper Shakers 1960s Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Decorative Art: Ceramics: American: Pottery: Pre 1960 item# 329119
click for details		Mark Bassett (aka 'potterybooks') 216-221-6025 $45.00 pair
This design is a pair of Art Deco 3-7/8" salt and pepper shakers with decal decoration, shapes 633 and 634. These Wild West motifs are really fun. The color portions depict The Colt Peacemaker rifle and the River Boat Gamblers Favorite pistol. In the background, in brown, are a cowboy gunslinger, cliffs, and a wagon being ambushed by three men with drawn gun. The other piece has brown illustrations of a gambler (Diamond Jack?) and a riverboat. 22k gilt trim. Raised factory name and shape nu ...click for details

Wiener Werkstatte Art Deco Pottery Austria Wieselthier Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Decorative Art: Ceramics: Low Countries: Pottery: Pre 1930 item# 319848
click for details		Mark Bassett (aka 'potterybooks') 216-221-6025 S * O * L * D
This example of Valerie ("Vally") Wieselthier's design work for the Wiener Werkstatte (Viennese Workshop, Austria) is 4-3/8" t. x 9.5" across. Die-impressed with the WW logo, AUSTRIA, the shape number, and the artist initials VW. Red terra cotta clay with decorations in an almost iridescent tin-based glossy glaze. T ...click for details

Viktor Schreckengost Deskey Art Pottery Rare Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Decorative Art: Ceramics: American: Pottery: Pre 1940 item# 158952
click for details		Mark Bassett (aka 'potterybooks') 216-221-6025 $7500.00
This 8" x 4" Peasant Ware serving bowl is a prototype that Cleveland artist Viktor Schreckengost designed in 1932 for American Limoges. The service was never produced, because the china company thought the designs were too heavy and too radically modern. For a 1934 exhibition of contemporary industrial arts and crafts at the Metr ...click for details

Miniature Art Deco Pottery Elephant Shawnee Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Decorative Art: Ceramics: American: Pottery: Pre 1950 item# 150261
click for details		Mark Bassett (aka 'potterybooks') 216-221-6025 $15.00
This 3" American art pottery miniature figurine of an Art Deco elephant has a satiny white glaze and no mark. According to Pamela Duvall Curran, in SHAWNEE POTTERY: THE FULL ENCYCLOPEDIA (page 234), he is Shawnee's shape A593. No nicks, chips, hairlines, or repairs, although there is some minor crazing.

Cowan Art Deco Pottery Chickadee Green 1920s Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Decorative Art: Ceramics: American: Pottery: Pre 1930 item# 107491
click for details		Mark Bassett (aka 'potterybooks') 216-221-6025 $195.00
This adorable Cowan Pottery 5" t. figure is fairly difficult for collectors to locate. Made in 1928, this example is glazed in the rutile glaze Antique Green, which has crystalline patches in shades of green and brown. Not marked, but guaranteed to be authentic vintage American art pottery by Cowan, from the collection of yours truly, author of COWAN POTTERY AND THE CLEVELAND SCHOOL. ...click for details

Mini. Morton Pottery Kangaroo Figurine Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Decorative Art: Ceramics: American: Pottery: Pre 1940 item# 88654
click for details		Mark Bassett (aka 'potterybooks') 216-221-6025 $15.00
This charming ca. 1930s or 1940s figurine of a kangaroo stands 2.75" tall. The glaze on this figure is glossy pale pink, and the clay is white. According to author Burdell Hall, it was made by one of the Morton (Illinois) Potteries. No mark. On the bottom is a very small sliver chip at one edge, which does not show when sitting upright. No other chips, hairlines, or repairs.

Kralik German Blown Glass Vase White Snake Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Decorative Art: Glass: Czechoslovakian: Pre 1940 item# 81157
click for details		Mark Bassett (aka 'potterybooks') 216-221-6025 $75.00
This beautiful iridescent 9.25" t. blown-molded art glass vase is made of opaque milk (opal) glass, cased in white, and has a stylus-engraved signature KRALIK and a ground pontil mark. The top rim is ruffled and there is an applied cobalt glass "snake" around the neck. I am told that this type of KRALIK glass was made in Germany between 1945 and 1949. ...click for details

Sorcha Boru King Queen Salt Pepper Shakers Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Decorative Art: Ceramics: American: Pottery: Pre 1960 item# 80273
click for details		Mark Bassett (aka 'potterybooks') 216-221-6025 $150.00 set
This pair of figural shakers was made in California by studio potter Sorcha Boru. The Queen has a section broken out of the base. The King is in great condition--no chips, hairlines, or repairs. Signed with incised artist signature. Very scarce!

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