Featured Creepy clown decanters

Hey all

Found these today, only bought them cause they looked a bit odd and scary/grotesque looking

Both measure 12 inches

Anybody have an idea where they might have come from and what age they are

Can't find any like them

Any thoughts appreciated

 

*shudder*
I think they look identical to a cookie jar I've seen in the past.

 

....or maybe they found you!

 

Sorry Laura, I tried to get the camera angle just right to make them look as sinister as possible

I think possibly I outdid myself

 

Halloween props for a scary party.
I used to work with a lady who put her lipstick on like that clown has on his mouth.

 

I burst with laughter with that one pearls, brilliant

 

Somehow the one with the head off especially made me shudder!

They seem to be vintage at least.

 

Sell these right before Halloween : -) There must be a market for them then!

 

Seriously creepy!

 

Hopefully they shatter when you pop them with a shotgun as they are walking down the hallway to your bedroom at midnight!

 

They don't shatter they laugh and chatter

One I can deal with

 

I'm totally satisfied with the level of horror they have instilled

Very hard to work out an age for them, always happy to find something that there's not loads of online though

 

Commedia dell'arte. Pagliaccio.

 

Maybe not ideal for alcoholic coulrophobiacs, who needed a drink real bad, but were too scared to get one

 

Comes to mind: Middle-class housewives especially took classes in painting ceramics in the 1950s in Sweden. The mother of a schoolmate of mine did this. I saw examples of her painted ceramic figurines for a creche drying in their kitchen once. The colors were all wrong I noticed although I was only 9 years old at the time. My schoolmate explained that the ceramics were not fired yet and the colors would be different, natural when that was done. I can't tell if that lady had done a good job of coloring or not because I never saw the figurines after they were fired.

The clowns here remind me of that popular hobby among those who had the discretionary means and time. I believe it was popular in other countries too, for quite some years. As late as the late 1970s there was a ceramics kiln in my suburban U.S. neighborhood where the owners conducted classes in painting ceramics.

Perhaps these clowns were examples from someone's hobby painting ceramics? If so, it'd be moot to try to find either origin or market worth. As they seem to have colors applied in rather clumsy strokes in the faces, makes me think that the hobby painter was not very skilled. My 1.5 cents.

 

I bet these were sold and not hobbyist because the paint almost looks airbrushed and the two have matching patterns. Could be Japanese as Davey suggested.

Someone will have to have one or both of these. Lol, if you could determine whether this pair has any "paranormal activity", you could be rich!

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