This is a great colorful glaze on this large Asian inspired twentieth century red earthenware porch vase from North Carolina; I found it yesterday morning with my niece Alexis at the annual Memorial Day weekend antiques show and flea market, otherwise known as Brimfield North, at the Deerfield Fairgrounds in Deerfield, New Hampshire. The dealer told me that she recently picked it out of a design/collectible type shop in Connecticut.
Furthermore, the vase stands 17 1/2 inches tall and was possibly made at the Arthur Ray Cole (1892-1974) Pottery in Sanford, North Carolina, circa 1940s-1960s, otherwise it was likely made by another member of the Cole family.
A. R. Cole operated his first pottery shop in 1926 in Steeds, North Carolina (near Seagrove), but in 1934 opened Rainbow Pottery in Sanford, North Carolina to be on the main North-South highway at the time, U.S. 1. In 1941, he began operating as A. R. Cole Pottery of Sanford.
The Cole family is among the most prominent in North Carolina pottery history and among the pioneers of the North Carolina art pottery movement. A. R. Cole was the son of the potter Ruffin Cole and the nephew of potters Wrenn Cole and the well-known J. B. Cole. Following A. R. Cole's death in 1974, the pottery continued to operate under the control of his daughters Neolia and Celia, who were already established as highly skilled potters in their father's pottery at that time.
Note: A forthcoming article that I wrote about some of the North Carolina discoveries that I have made in New England over the past year or so will be published in a future issue of Antiques & Auction News.
A Good North Carolina Red Earthenware Porch Vase
Please Stay Tuned...Much More to Come...
2 comments:
Curious as to what a nice big pot like this sells for up north?
Not a lot - will say that!
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