Mud Fun

March 19, 2014

Funny Mud Pottery

Ever since it was discovered that mud was malleable in around the year dot, clay has been modeled 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, rather than any aesthetic qualities. It’s ability to hold its colours and surface gloss longer than 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. Some ceramic gems can be the result when creators have some fun in the mud.

Sally Meekins ceramic cat lid teapot

Southdowns ceramic toast rack

Pottery coffee set by Exquisite

Swineside mantle teapot

‘The Guest’ by Jaime Hayon for lladro

Vintage Floral Ceramic Bunny

Enesco Giftware

Starbucks 2011 Anniversary Mug

Melusina Mermaid with gold confusion, highlighting the grade

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( A few things lost in translation here )

Virgil Ortiz – ‘Siamese Twins’

‘Wiggly Box’ – Julia Roxburgh, UK

Wenchang Wang, god of literature and scholarship – Caxistreet, China

Lost in a state of vacuous suspension ? Suffering from writer’s block? Facing the bloggers wall of blank ? Put a figure of Wenchang on your desk .

Rhino Eggcup by Canterbury Cross Collections

Tiki absinthe skull stein 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

Modernist Cat – Laurel Burch

Laurel Burch – Ceramic Cats

Véronique Didierlaurent figurine

Intarsio Art Nouveau jug vase designed by Frederick Rhead for Wileman & Co. circa 1898

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

‘Pirate Skull Cup’

Yiwu Bing Cui E-commerce

Ceramic crab bowl – Caroline Selmes

Patricia Lazar ‘Geisha Girl Teapot’

Jason Bige Burnett – ‘Clown Nose Container’

Jolly Jester teapot – Sally Meekins

‘Melt Mug’ – Lenka Czereova

Twin Chameleon Vase – Ardmore Australia

African terracotta vase Ayanda-Mji

artmuseum.co.za

Lionel Richie Hello Mug

‘Dog Treat Jar’– cheers pottery – Etsy

‘Godzilla mug’ – Eileen de Rosas

‘Peach Tilt Teapot’ –Tom Hurbert

‘Space Mug’ – Morris Pottery

Vincent Magritte teapot

Cat Mug – Cheers Pottery etsy

Betty Boo Salt and Pepper Shaker – Westland

Found in the mud : Local farmer with ancient (pre-Incan Moche culture) pottery he found while working in his fields.

ardentrewartha.wordpress.com

More mud stuff :

MudStuffing Pottery

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.

Mud Stuffing Pottery – etsy