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Mexican Siesta Man Southwest Pottery Handpainted Blue $29.97

Blue Mountain Pottery Mini Tea Pot 3 1/2 IN TALL 5 IN WITH LID BASE 4 IN 12OZ $25.99

UNUSUAL & VERY INTERESTING Studio Pottery Pin Dish WHITE WITH BLUE ANT PATTERN $26.66

Vintage Blue Mountain Pottery laughing duck Very Rare !!! $44.95

Old Made in Belgium Pottery Vase~Blues/Browns-Smooth/Textured-9″ $9.99

Vintage Early American Pottery Blue Flower BOWL $6.99

Vtg 1986 Jugtown Ware Batter Bowl Blue Glaze North Carolina Pottery $9.99

Vintage model F24 Blue Green teal Hull Pottery Basket Bowl Great Condition USA $18.74

Mccoy Art Pottery Blue & Pink Set of 4 Mugs $9.99

Vintage J & E Mayer KING PIN Pattern Pottery Blue & Whte Covered Jar Flo Blue ? $9.99

McCoy Art Pottery Blue & Pink 2 handled Soup Bowl $14.99

3 Small Vases Ewers Pitchers Lot Ceramic Pottery Blue Painted Lot 3in $7.99

McCoy Art Pottery Blue & Pink Tea Pot (no lid) $19.99

Signed Pottery Blue Striped CREAM & SUGAR DISH $15.99

Blue Ridge Pottery Green BRIAR Pie Crust Edge Bread Dessert Plate 6 1/4″ dia. $6.95

Hot Springs POTTERY Turquoise Blue & GREEN Drip Glaze BARREL PITCHER $19.00

McCoy Art Pottery Blue & Pink Bowl with spout & handle $14.99

Vintage Ceramic Vase Modernist German Pottery Roth Era Vase Blue glaze $7.83

Vintage Camark Art Pottery Bowl – Rare Blue w/Unusual Design-Mint!! $29.00

MOLDE POTTERY 7 1/2″ Pitcher Blue and Tan Portugal $28.99

Vintage Blue Mountain Pottery Canada Huge Spade Dish Bowl. Signed High Gloss $31.99

SUPERB BLUE DEVONMOOR POTTERY TANKARD JAMAICA INN BODMIN MOOR $4.63

North State POTTERY OF NORTH CAROLINA BLUE ON GRAY Drip Pitcher $49.00

BBP Blue & Gray Rowe like Pottery Small Crock 1995 $7.99

Vintage California Santa Anita Pottery Low Bowl White Speckle w/ Aqua Blue $7.99

Vintage Pacific Pottery Low Bowl White and Aqua Blue 3322 $12.99

Vintage Mexican Mexico Folk Art Pottery Animal Reclining Lion Blue & Brown NICE! $19.99

Henn Pottery BLUE Green Spongeware BASKET TAG COLORCHIP $0.99

HOSS USA Honey Bee Pitcher Pottery Blue Finish $9.00

Portugal Majolica CERAMICA Pottery Salt & Pepper Shakers white w/ blue +veggies $8.99

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Stunning Raku Pottery Will Enhance Any Decor

Raku pottery has become a popular interior design accessory that is becoming more popular as a technique with professional potters and hobby pottery enthusiasts and more widely used to enhance any décor because of the mutant color qualities that blend with existing decorating schemes.

Raku pottery takes its origin in Japan, where the family of Japanese potters from the16th Kyoto created the style and distinctive characteristics of low temperature and interrupted firing, because their firing was wood-fueled kilns, since there was no propane at the time.

While some lore believes that “smoking” gave Raku the name and characteristics, that myth comes from the fact that the pottery was allowed to air-cool after the traditional fire started to die down, and the smoke formed the variant color details.

It has become popular again in the last twenty-five years as the Raku pottery techniques involve drawing red hot pots from a kiln and the subsequent “smoking” of the pottery is done in sawdust for the effect. In fact, Hamada, the famous Japanese potter, once said he wanted to wait until the end of his life to learn how to make Raku pottery, because it was the most important and difficult technique to master.

Raku pottery techniques are done in various ways and originally earthenware was used, although any clay body can be used in the process, because it is the glazing and firing technique that makes it distinct. Much of the characteristics of this pottery come from the glaze that is used and it will cool with a “cracking” appearance, also called crazing, that gives the pottery vibrant color contrasts, which are mutable, and may have strong simple shapes and random crazing.

Because of these characteristics, they make a stunning collection of elegant pottery that can fit a wide range of interior decors and have colors that mutate to harmonize with the surroundings of a room. Pleasing to the eye, calming to the spirit and bringing joy and harmony to your heart and life are part of the Raku tradition. Traditionally, Japanese used Raku for their Japanese Tea parties for these reasons in ancient centuries.

Today, Raku pottery comes in a variety of finishes and patterns. Bright colors like lapis, aqua, persimmon, red, coffee, amethyst, egg plant gray or gun metal blue are examples. Finishes turn out with different patterns that vary with the color of glaze used. Pottery that is Raku inspired is often inspired by primitive ritual and ceremonial Ceramics From around the world. Examples would be a fetish pot, volcano seed pots or volcano bowls.

These Unique Pottery shapes, colors and finishes can turn a room into an artistically pleasing palette that features the aesthetic and relaxing Zen-like traits that make this type of pottery more than just another vase. If you have never seen Raku pottery, then you will certainly recognize it for the unique glazing patterns, vibrant colors and unusual shapes it can have. It is these characteristics that have made it so popular in decorating today.

The different look you achieve by using Raku pottery, versus normal ceramic pottery with standard glazes is dramatic, as the Raku pottery has an almost ancient pottery look that gives it an old world character, yet has shapes that are unique, edge techniques that are free formed or different patterned and can become the focal point of any room, regardless of other decorating styles in a room. You can enhance any décor when you use this pottery to compliment your interior design.

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Ceramic Pot styled like a lidded saucepan, blue-gray glaze/stoneage hunting figures by chappell. Identify?

I am trying to find out more about a peice of pottery given to me by my mother in law. The pot itself is brown with a blue Grey Glaze, into which stick hunting men/animals/trees and sun are drawn, so that they have taken on the brown colour. It is lidded with a short stumpy handle and resembles a saucepan. On the bottom it is signed ‘Chappell’ in very neat writing. I haven’t seen anything like it anywhere else and want to know more about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappell%2C_Nebraska

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