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Re: FACE JUG - Belgium?
by big ed July 20th 2010, 8:45 pm
Does any one think this could be farnham pottery ,or anyone recognize the face featured , war time maybe .
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Re: FACE JUG - Belgium?
by bistoboy July 20th 2010, 11:52 pm
the green glaze reminded me of Farnham, but i saw a piece only the other day and the green was lighter and more yellow. I have a few pieces of French pottery with this type of green glaze so i'm tending more towards there.
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Re: FACE JUG - Belgium?
by big ed July 21st 2010, 10:49 am
Cheers bistoboy , I agree farnham looks lighter ,although I know they did other colours as well , here's a site worth looking into , I will email them .
http://www.misc-histories.info/farnham-pottery/index.htm
http://www.misc-histories.info/farnham-pottery/index.htm
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Re: FACE JUG - Belgium?
by big ed July 22nd 2010, 10:20 am
Just received this reply from the farnham collectors
Hello Eddie and Kath,
Your pottery mug is very good, and very unusual. We've not seen one like that before. The Farnham Pottery certainly did make items with faces.
The glaze looks right for Farnham Pottery and the base look OK. We can say with 90-95% certainty that it is Farnham, and it is probably a late 19th/early 20th century piece.
Hello Eddie and Kath,
Your pottery mug is very good, and very unusual. We've not seen one like that before. The Farnham Pottery certainly did make items with faces.
The glaze looks right for Farnham Pottery and the base look OK. We can say with 90-95% certainty that it is Farnham, and it is probably a late 19th/early 20th century piece.
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Re: FACE JUG - Belgium?
by dantheman July 22nd 2010, 12:04 pm
well done Ed,do they want to buy it?
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Re: FACE JUG - Belgium?
by big ed July 22nd 2010, 12:11 pm
Dunno dan , I don't know what they are worth anyway.
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Re: FACE JUG - Belgium?
by dantheman July 22nd 2010, 1:27 pm
if the collector's club haven't seen one like it then it is probably quite rare
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Re: FACE JUG - Belgium?
by big ed July 22nd 2010, 1:43 pm
latest millers guide for a 2" high owl , is £300-400, they gotta be jestin' surely 
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Re: FACE JUG - Belgium?
by dantheman July 22nd 2010, 1:48 pm
please ask the club if that is correct and if they think yours is valuable 
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Re: FACE JUG - Belgium?
by dantheman July 22nd 2010, 2:14 pm
good luck with that Ed,I'm excited for you 
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Re: FACE JUG - Belgium?
by big ed August 6th 2010, 7:53 am
I contacted the Farnham museum as well as the collectors and got this reply
Thank you for the photographs of your face jug.
The design is completely new to me but the colour and the nature of the glaze is completely spot on for Farnham Greenware. I would expect the fabric of the clay to be quite orange in colour.
One cannot categorically say that this is definitely from the Wrecclesham pottery as very few of their products were signed or stamped. However, I would certainly say that the likelihood is that it was made there.
There is really no more that I can tell you. The peak period for producing pots with this distinctive green glaze was in the first 20 or 30 years of the last century.
I hope that this helps
With regards
Anne Jones
Curator
So I reckon I will open a farnham thread as I have another small vase that more or less concludes this is farnham from around the 1900's
Thank you for the photographs of your face jug.
The design is completely new to me but the colour and the nature of the glaze is completely spot on for Farnham Greenware. I would expect the fabric of the clay to be quite orange in colour.
One cannot categorically say that this is definitely from the Wrecclesham pottery as very few of their products were signed or stamped. However, I would certainly say that the likelihood is that it was made there.
There is really no more that I can tell you. The peak period for producing pots with this distinctive green glaze was in the first 20 or 30 years of the last century.
I hope that this helps
With regards
Anne Jones
Curator
So I reckon I will open a farnham thread as I have another small vase that more or less concludes this is farnham from around the 1900's
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Re: FACE JUG - Belgium?
by gareth-h August 6th 2010, 9:30 pm
Could it be Kitchener? There's something about the eyes and the 'tache.
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Re: FACE JUG - Belgium?
by big ed August 7th 2010, 1:29 pm
That's a strong possibility , the dates would fit perfectly , i don't know about the likeness though , everybody had that moustache in them days , I say everybody,.... obviously SOME of the women didn't 
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Re: FACE JUG - Belgium?
by skay August 7th 2010, 2:14 pm
Yes I thought Kitchener, but as Ed said that was the fashion then. A bit off-topic but one of my Celeries looks like him:
My Granny 1885-1979 struggled to avoid a similar tash, as I remember
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Re: FACE JUG - Belgium?
by big ed April 17th 2012, 3:15 pm
My farnham ( or not) face jug is to be featured in the June home & antiques assessed by Eric knowles, should be interesting ( for me) to hear what he thinks .
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Re: FACE JUG - Belgium?
by dantheman April 17th 2012, 4:00 pm
is that a mag?
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Re: FACE JUG - Belgium?
by brin mcardle April 17th 2012, 4:12 pm
interesting magazine....but spends a bit too long showing interiors
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Re: FACE JUG - Belgium?
by Oldmagpie April 17th 2012, 4:18 pm
Some of the articles on the website are quite good. I tend to agree with Brin a lot of interior designer type stuff has to be sifted out to find the useful stuff. 
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Re: FACE JUG - Belgium?
by studio-pots April 17th 2012, 8:28 pm
big ed wrote:My farnham ( or not) face jug is to be featured in the June home & antiques assessed by Eric knowles, should be interesting ( for me) to hear what he thinks .
Not sure that I would have too much faith in what "Knocker" says as it really isn't his type of thing.
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Re: FACE JUG - Belgium?
by studio-pots April 17th 2012, 8:31 pm
That's not a dig at Mr. Knowles because quite frankly I wouldn't have much faith in my own opinion!
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