I'm guessing here, but Chinese, early 20th c. Maybe 1920s/30s when that black background (some call it "famille noir" but I read somewhere that...
RIP Mr. Carter. Certainly one who wished to serve his fellow man.
Google translate gives me Chinese -- Yī sōng zhèng. And there is the honorific reign mark on it, too.
Well, I'm stumped. One glance and I would've said Japanese, but it looks like it was thrown on a wheel and I doubt the Japanese would let a piece...
Looks like a kind of lava glaze. Nice stuff.
Well the clue to the largest exporter of maple syrup is on our Canadian flag. I've never had it, but apparently, syrup poured directly on snow...
I think they're just bumping your post so it doesn't get lost. Yes, because of the base, I would suspect fairly recent decorator item from...
Never heard of white port. But we've got near a half dozen of bottles downstairs as a friend gives us one at Christmas every year. I'll have to...
As komokwa's post above stated, too.
In Tallcake's link there is one that looks almost identical to yours except that the colouring is a bit more vivid. The description is a bit...
Not intending to be punny, but is that Greek writing?
So those Doulton plaques that I cleaned up I placed on the wall with those removable sticky things. 3M Command is the brand. But they might not...
Pretty sure it's German -- I thought Schierholz, but that's wrong. Second half of 19th c. However, there's a good chance that I'm mistaken....
Zsolnay! I knew it had an Eastern European look! That also may be why the seller put a healthy price on it.
Continental, not 1813, but later 19th c is likely. The listing shows a pair which always commands more money, but who knows if it's a reasonable...
We had an old oil drum in the back yard that my parents used to burn some garden clippings, etc., and when I finished the book, I threw it into...
Ah, like Yanks, Brits, Canucks, etc., New Zealanders are known as Kiwis.
I'm trying to remember what decade that shredded pottery was popular in studio pottery. 1990s? 2000s?
Ha, ha! This old pottie took one look at that and thought Iittala! You never know what is hiding in my aged brain!
Saw the Blair Witch Project when it came out. We didn't think it was that scary or even that good -- but everyone get scared by different things....
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