Ever since it was discovered that mud was malleable in around the year dot, clay has been modelled into shapes for the amusement of others. Novelty ceramic giftware, which is quite often quirky and kitsch, sometimes become desirable to collectors purely by virtue of its audaciousness and originality. It’s ability to hold its colours and surface gloss longer then plastic giftwares also keeps it in the favourable stead with collectors despite its fragility. There is always a steady stream of fun ceramic pieces from low art to high art entering the giftware market, sometimes with marketing campaigns that are as entertaining as the product.
Sally Meekins ceramic teapot
Southdowns ceramic toast rack
Exquisite Pottery coffee set
Swineside mantle teapot
The Guest by Jaime Hayon for lladro
Vintage Floral Ceramic Bunny
Enesco Giftware
Virgil Ortiz – Siamese Twins
Wiggly Box - Julia Roxburgh, UK
Wenchang Wang, god of literature and scholarship – Caxistreet, China
Suffering from writers block? Put a figure of Wenchang on your desk .
Rhino eggcup by Canterbury Cross Collections
Tiki absinthe stein skull drinkware
Clive Michael’s store, Fujian
Flush away that morning fatigue with your ceramic toilet coffee mug.
ACDC headbanger gift vase – Pierre Blanc
Dupenny 50′s Housewives Mugs – Peggy
Diego Romero – Bowl with Chongo Brothers
Ceramic teapot
( artintenrnational.ru )
Rare ROBJ Paris Art Deco Lady Figural Powder Box c. 1925
Ceramic Afro Mug with lid
Retro atomic bowl – Herta Gerz, BC Ceramics, Vancouver, late 1950’s
BC Ceramics was British Colombia’s largest manufacturer of ceramic giftware, including vases, lamps, bowls, and figurines. Their distinctively shaped and decorated products were sold nationally.
Blue Fire Studio – etsy
Mexican hand painted ceramic Talavera toilet ‘Acapulco Oro’
( www.terraartesana.com )
Jingdezhen ceramic handbag 41cm x 23cm
Can be used as a vase or an actual handbag !
Frog Figurines – Damon Gift
I wonder what’s in that pipe
Garden Gnome - Battersea’s Spring Decorative Fair
Asian lady bust designed by Helen Liedloff – Goldscheider – 1950′s
Jingdezhen ceramic Japanese wind chime
Be very wary of what you say in the morning when the missus is holding her knuckleduster coffee mug.
La Bottega Wonderland – Livellara day mood tea pot Carmen
Italy
Laurel Burch-1999
Laurel Burch - Ceramic Cats
Véronique Didierlaurent figurine
Intarsio Art Nouveau jug vase designed by Frederick Rhead for Wileman & Co. circa 1898
Murrine Foglio – David Patchen
Aloha Hawaiian Girl Maile on Pineapple
( mahalotiki.com )
Penguin Pair - Natural World Animal Collection
Noi Volkov Teapot – Botero
Nordic Porcelain Hen – Gongyuta
Life inside a pot – Keiko Masumoto
Orange Box – Vaughan Nelson
Ceramic crab bowl – Caroline Selmes
Patricia Lazar Geisha Girl Teapot
Some mud stuff :
Mud Stuffing Pottery – Keith Phillips
My name is Keith Phillips and I make stuff. I make a lot of stuff. I’m a human factory of stuff making goodness. Most of the stuff I make is made from mud-like stuff, but sometimes I make stuff from other stuff. Some of the stuff I make isn’t real stuff, it’s virtual stuff, but most of the stuff I make is real stuff you use to drink stuff from. I’ve even made stuff that had stuffing in the stuff I made. That’s where the name MudStuffing Pottery came from.
Keith Phillips teapot – MudStuffing pottery
Keith Phillips – Sandblasted Dessert Cup
Keith Phillips Cup
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