RARE NORTH CAROLINA ART POTTERY CHINESE RED HEART VASE!

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Up for auction is a Stunning and Beautiful, Rare, Chinese or Chrome Red Glaze, North Carolina Art Pottery, American Art Pottery, Heart Shaped Rose Bowl Vase in Absolute Mint Condition, Circa 1940's, 1950's. This is an awsome example of North Carolina Art Pottery at its best. However, giving this wonderful vase a solid attribution has been difficult. In all honesty, I want to attribute this vase to the J.B. Cole Pottery of the Seagrove area and t is quite a bit of evidence to support an attribution to them. The vase has the tell-tale stilt marks of J. B. Cole wares and it also appears to have the belt-sander evidence that came about around 1940 and after. If you study the photos closely you will also note the accented rings from turning the pot which is a signature of J.B. Cole's son, Waymon Cole. I can also add that when it comes to trying a new shape and / or glaze, this vase lends even more evidence that Waymon Cole may have turned and burned it. After J.B. Cole passed away in 1943, His son Waymon and his daughter, the famous Nell Cole Graves took over the pottery. In the early 1940's J.B. Cole was passing the torch to his two children and they decided to help speed up production by purchasing a belt sander to remove excess glaze from the bottom of pots after they were fired. You will note this vase's bottom had a good bit of glaze sanded off around the edges of the base. The belt sander was perfect for this because the wares could be leveled easily. You can see the center area of the bottom was never touched and it didn't need to be touched to level this piece. North Carolina Art Potters and Potteries were quite aware that the goods needed to rest level and flat. I have to admit that I can't attribute the glaze or the shape of this vase to anything else by the J.B. Cole Pottery in my vast arsenal of research material, but at the same time I know I need to do more research and obtain more photo examples whenever I possibly can. I really can't find this exact shape or glaze of this vase being used for any of the other North Carolina Art Potteries either. In short both the glaze and form of this vase are rare and unusual no matter which North Carolina pottery produced it . The clay is also a bit dark for Seagrove, but t can be no argument that trying to pinpoint any one clay type to the J.B. Cole Pottery over its vast years of production is fruitless. The more of their pottery you see, the more varied the different clays they used seems to get. This also seems to go hand in hand with the glazes they used. I am certain this vase is a 100% true example of genuine North Carolina Art Pottery and the bottom of this piece just won't deny this fact. However this could be an Owens, Seagrove, Jugtown or even a Hilton Piece as well. Some of these potteries also used stilts and everyone of them had to sand a bottom off from time to time. Chinese or chrome red glazes was used and developed in North Carolina, but the closest glazes I can find to this pot's glaze are still somewhat different. This may have been an all out experimental piece that included both the form and glaze within the experiment. It also stands to reason that this glaze and the heart shape of the vase were done together as perhaps a custom order. The glaze may have possibly been a commercial glaze that the pottery was invited to try by a supplier of some kind or requested by the customer. You will find examples of similar "oxblood" style Chinese / chrome red glazes used by larger commercial potteries during this era also. I have given you plenty of viewing photos and from different lighting perspectives also. This is a deep red high gloss glaze, so I sun blasted it for the 4 photos that show its heart shaped sides. I then toned down the sunlight and took more photos viewing the vase's 4 flat sides. This shows that the vase is deep red in color and in no way am I trying to mislead you as to how it views aesthetically. The simple fact is this vase has deep red and brownish vibrant hues of color and should be displayed in a well lighted area to enjoy i... read more

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