After 15 bids, this 1904 Signed Moorcroft MacIntyre Art Pottery Vase sells for $1603 in August 2009.   It measures 5″ tall x 4 1/2″ wide.  Signed on the bottom with the MacIntyre Logo & Registration Numbers, then Signed with the William Moorcroft mark.

This mint oyster plate is signed Minton. It measures  9″ wide.  The plate sold for $1,183 after 13 bids in August 2009.

Having begun working part-time in the retail trade at age 11, Lyman Bloomingdale decided to go out on his own at the age of 31. He teamed up with his brother Joseph to start their own business. By choosing a storefront with two large plate glass windows, the Bloomingdale Brothers opened a 20’ by 75’ store at 938 Third Avenue on a cool, sunny day in April of 1872. Sales at the end of the day totaled $3.68, but they weren’t discouraged. Within a month of opening their store, business had become brisk enough to convert the stockroom into an expanded sales floor. Lyman recognized the value of using the metropolitan dailies to advertise their wares. As the nation entered a depression in September 1873, eighteen months after opening, the Bloomingdale Brothers recognized the need to redirect their merchandising policy to “offer the best possible value for the least possible price”. Three years after the depression began, it finally burned itself out and Bloomingdale Brothers acquired a five-story building with good window space on the corner of 56th Street and Third Avenue. Suddenly, Bloomingdale’s ’had become a department store.This is an old butter churn from the original Bloomingdale’s store in 1872. Marked Bloomingdales Bros 3rd Ave and 59th Street. It has a 4 to indicate four gallon. Also has large blue flower.

This Crock sold for $1,000 in August 2009.

This near mint 1/2 gallon advertising jug made by the Red Wing Stoneware Company stamped Rieger & Lindley Wholesale Liquors Salt Lake City, Utah sold for $1,124 in August 2009 with 17 bids.

Crock’s made by Boughner, from a little town in SW Pennsylvania called Greensboro. The decoration is unusual because it wraps all the way around the jar. It is 12″ tall and 8 3/4″ wide. There are several chips. It sold for $2,302 with 28 bids in August 2009.

This porcelain lobster figurine is impressed with a conjoined “AP” for Andrea Pedersen, the maiden name of Andrea Nielsen, who was at Royal Copenhagen from approximately 1905 to 1918. The other marks exhibited on this piece include the three rivers mark in underglaze blue, the stamped and circular “ROYAL COPENHAGEN” mark, in green, with the crown in the middle and a dot before and after “ROYAL” and finally, the impressed production/shape number, “444.” Approx. 1 3/4″ X 5 1/2″. Mint condition. The figurine sold for $1900 after 30 bids in July 2009.

Axel Salto (1889-1961) Was perhaps the most important designer of ceramic art in Denmark. In 1929 Salto spent a short time working at the ‘Triangle’ studio of Carl Halier in Fredriksberg where he developed the stoneware forms for which he would become renowned once he joined Royal Copenhagen in 1934. He achieved a powerful expressiveness by exploiting form and surface. Salto interpreted motives from the plant world and created pieces with surface structures that rippled with dynamic energy and dramatic lines.

Axel Salto worked in three main styles; budding, sprouting and living stone. He never abandoned his experiment with unusually rich glazes and evocative organic forms. Salto used Chinese and classic glazes such as the “solfatara” and “sung”, to clothe his organic creations.

For most of his career, Salto worked at Royal Copenhagen. This legendary manufacturer produced Salto’s designs from the 1930’s until after his death.

Salto’s early work is inspired heavily by classical languages and Greek mythology– his undergraduate major– as well as by the visual motifs of Art Deco, religious and especially demonic iconography. His pieces later turned to the forms of nature, like seedpods, budding flowers or fruit, for their fertile energy and form. Salto’s approach was to “create in accordance with nature, rather than to copy its exterior.” Using relief patterns on the surface of his pieces, Salto was also able to use his ornamentation as a vehicle for the different glazing techniques. Rows of “seeds” or a more angular hive pattern on the outside of a vase would reveal the properties of the glaze as it slid between grooves, exposing its varying thickness and sheen.

This free form vessel is 7 3/4″ (200mm) tall x 8 3/8″ (210mm) wide and a rim diameter of 3 1/8″ (80mm).

192.36 is inscribed on the base with the artist’s signature and the green Royal Copenhagen underglaze stamp. The small dash (-) under the “G” in Copenhagen reflects a 1969 year of production. The blue underglaze form identification is 20560, denoting this special bulbous shape.

This figurine by Royal Copenhagen shows a pre-1923 mark and #1882. The artist is Peter Herold. There is no damage and the size is 7 3/4″ L x 6 3/4″ H x 4 1/2″ W.    The Huskies sold for $2000 after 42 bids in July 2009.

Harold Everett Bayer ( 1900 - 199? ) American Folk Artist

Bayer was a Toledo, Ohio artist who painted in the naive primitive style of Grandma Moses. He is listed on Ask Art and is represented in the American Museum of Folk Art. The subject of his paintings is typically Midwest living.

These two paintings are signed in the lower left ” H.E. Bayer 1981 Toledo” They both include his signature dog “Pokey”, seen in many of his paintings. They are oil on masonite. The sizes are 20″ x 16″ with framed sizes of 23″ x 19″. They sold for $1000 for the pair.