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.
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.
Keith Phillips teapot – MudStuffing pottery
‘Couple Tossed in the Wind’ Dinner Plate – MudStuffing pottery
‘Men Fighting over a Women’ – Keith Phillips
Keith Phillips – Sandblasted Dessert Cup
MudStuffing pottery
Keith Phillips Cup
Dinner-Plate—Steampunk Moon By Keith Phillips
MudStuffing pottery
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