Featured Help Please? Maker of Dragon / Lion Jardiniere?

Good morning O Wise Ones! I am hoping someone will have better luck than I , identifying the maker of this jardiniere. I bought this on on eBay years ago and it arrived smashed up. I would love to replace it with a sound one but I have never seen another like it. I have had various keyword searches in all the selling and auction forums I can think of for YEARS, and nada. But I have certainly seen a lot of Asian jardinieres in the meantime! It measures 6.5" high, 8.5" across the mouth and 5.25" across the slightly footed base. The NO.3 is an under-glaze impressed stamp. Thank you!!!

 

Fantastic job of repairing it!

 

I suspect that's English. Did you try majolica as a term?

 

"Ownedbybear, Did you try majolica as a term?

Not specifically, since it's monochrome and doesn't appear to have a white under-glaze. That term is used pretty loosely across the forums, so it confuses me. I have always associated it with drippy, syrupy poly-chrome glazes, usually with a lot of naturalistic motifs.. at least the English 19th century items.. such as...

 

Barn Owl wrote Fantastic job of repairing it!

Thank you Barn Owl! I am fortunate to have a very handy husband. He can fix almost everything he breaks!

 

Majolica basically refers to it being a tin glaze, so it can be reasonably used for monochrome. The number means the size in a range: I've seen it on British stuff, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was a US usage as well.

 

I'd rather call that a cache pot.
https://www.google.ch/search?q=art+...6cHgAhVNx4UKHSJsA7EQ_AUIDigB&biw=1184&bih=548

 

and you could add "barbotine" in your research.
http://barbotine.free.fr/

 

It looks molded to me.

 

Hi Fid,
Thanks to your post I have found one of my photos of my cache pot credited to someone else. Well at least they good taste.
greg

 

did you read the definition of barbotine ?

 

Yes, it referred to applied slip decoration, which I don't see here.

 

Wow! A whole new world of ceramics! Some wild and beautiful pieces! Thank you for the new search term to explore Fid. I do agree with janetpjohn, mine is molded, and not a hand-wrought work of art... I wish!

 

thank you. may it give you new ideas and may you find a pretty replacement for your old one soon. frankly, I don't believe you'll find an exact copy of your cache pot. and the old French made good stuff; so colourful one might think they had too much absinth.

 

Fid, I assume this was mass-produced from a mold someone went to a good deal of trouble to make, so I am very surprised that another one hasn't turned up somewhere in my years of on-line searching. Especially HERE, as you all are absolute savants and Sherlocks when it comes to finding things!