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The stunning vessels from the H. Wilson & Company were forgotten for generations, only to gain new appreciation for the craftsmanship that went into them ...
As opposed to straight-sided mason jars in the West closed with canning lids, the curvy glazed stoneware jar has a moat running around the rim that creates a natural seal when you pour in a ...
They've decorated an old stoneware jar, adding a baseball cap, a handlebar mustache made out of paper. The jar ends up another character in a family photograph with the girl, the boy and their ...
The cookie jars came in two basic shapes -- the slightly ... glazes because of the modern equipment it had to use. Hull Pottery closed in 1985. Some of Hull's Little Red Riding Hood items can ...
Handmade All Jars stoneware is handmade in France entirely from natural materials. The final clay (paste & slip) is a unique Jars recipe perfected over 150 years of stoneware production.
Drake is known for making monumental pottery, such as this jar acquired last year by the Art Institute of Chicago.Credit...Art Institute of Chicago Another aim of the exhibition is to understand ...
A ginger jar initially dismissed as “just another piece of blue-and-white pottery” turned out to be a 300-year-old Chinese treasure. The 9-inch ceramic pot, which is missing its lid ...
No kitchen before the 1900s could function without stoneware jars, pitchers, bowls and butter churns. And there were many other items made such as mugs, foot warmers and milk pans. It was truly a ...
Wilson & Company’s jars. At the first pottery-making site ... Durham and Chandler were in business together. That site closed in 1903. These pots remained in circulation, but many details ...
For just $19.98, shoppers can grab cute stoneware cookie jars shaped like a reindeer, a snowman (probably named Frosty), and the man himself: Santa Claus. Each jar is filled with an assortment of ...