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Your Price: $ 24.99
Item Number: 2155 |
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Manufacturer: McCoy Pottery
Vintage McCoy Pottery piece from their Butterfly line, which dates to the early 1940s or a mid-century modern piece. This is a planter is a log trough style as seen by the shape, which we believe McCoy referred to as a fernery, but are not certain of that. It is light pink in color with a matte glaze, a color which McCoy referred to as Coral.
About 8 9/16 inches in outer length, 4 inches in width/depth, and standing about 3 3/8 inches in height on 4 triangular style legs. The outside has a molded multiple butterflies design differing on all four sides. The outside is not smooth nor conforms to a strict rectangular shape, as it imitates a log, curving on the underside, with a slight bumpiness or waviness to the top outer rim making this overall appearing with slight contouring rather than a straight line feel. The color glazing is also not a flat pink or coral, but has lighter and darker purple elements to it. Particularly on the inside and the underside bottom, you can see the random light purple coloring in areas, giving this a richer, more vibrant feel.
This old piece is not marked with any of the various McCoy logos, but from some research, that is not uncommon. Apparently this planter or fernery piece is known to have sometimes been marked with only the USA mark, and this was often done subtly and not readable on these pieces. We see no indication at all of a mark on the underside base, but are certain that this is a McCoy piece from the pattern, style and research.
This piece is pottery or ceramic or made of clay. It is heavy for its size as is often the case with McCoy pottery, weighing 28.3 ounces or 1.75 pounds unpacked.
The smooth, highly molded piece was hard to photograph, with the camera lighting often "blanding out" some of the detail and condition aspects. So we have provided 8 images, shot both with and without the camera light. Those with the light are truer to the coloring, but those without the light while appearing dark can often help you to see detail better. The color is still richer and nicer in person than we could show. Please look across all the images to get the best feel for this highly collectible piece, using the zoom feature for closer detail.
While very displayable and usable, this piece does show its age and prior use, has flaws, and is not mint. There are no large chips or pieces missing. The interior shows expected light brown/yellowish staining in largely a line fashion around all four sides below the rim from prior use as a planter with dirt (you can see some of this in the images, this is darker in person than the images show but still not overly bad). This piece has largely overall light gray line crazing (not really everywhere but over much of the piece so you should view this as overall crazed, the line crazing is lighter or darker in differing areas). On the interior, in 3 of the 4 corners, you can see vertical and diagonal hairline cracks of varied lengths, with another 2 lesser hairlines elsewhere on the interior sides. In one corner, one of these hairlines is also visible at an angle on the exterior (the last image shows this). This fernery was manufactured with raised dots of extra pottery, pin & pit dots, some small unglazed spots, two groupings of many top glazing dots/pops/tiny pin dots on one exterior long side, etc. There is other expected age/use wear such as darkening on the underside legs, some scratches/rubbed lines, light spots, a low tiny dot rim flake, etc.
Still has a lovely overall look in a hard to find piece which came out of an older home and would be impressive on display or in use, and would add to any collection of this terrific McCoy pottery. |
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