Incised Divided Triangle on Brightly Colored Majolica Jardiniere

by Bonnie Cox
(Boston, Mass USA)

Incised Divided Triangle on Brightly Colored Majolica Jardiniere:- I'm so glad I found this web site, I hope you can help me with identifying this mark. I found two beautiful majolica jardinières yesterday at a local St Vincent de Paul thrift shop here, in the suburbs near Boston.

Although the larger piece is marked on the bottom with only an impressed "USA", I was able to identify it on-line almost immediately as Robinson Ransbottom RRP Roseville Pottery, the pattern is called Sun and Moon.

The second, slightly smaller one has me puzzled. The mark on the bottom is of a divided, incised triangle. It looks to me very much like the Van Briggle "double A", but without the little "feet" on the bottom. I'm pretty sure that's not it.

It's six and a half inches high, and seven and a half inches wide at the top. The color of the body is brown and yellow, the band around the top is green, and there are four evenly spaced "drips" of blue going around it.

The condition is great, there are no chips or cracks, but the glaze has been rubbed off in a couple of the high spots, which I gather is not that uncommon. Maybe that's too much information, I don't know, but I hope that it might help to you identify the maker.

Thanks in advance!

Bonnie


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Incised Divided Triangle on Brightly Colored Majolica Jardiniere

Peter (admin) says:-

Hi Bonnie

I'm glad you found this site too! A lovely submission and a lovely pot, thanks for sharing.

You are a real china sniffer - with a nose for the good stuff! The Roseville you found sound very nice and you know how to do a bit of research too!

I looked at all the triangle marks in my various books, but did not come across this one. I think it must be a nice pottery though, if not as well known as some. Likely American though, like the Roseville don't you think?

Now, what this site is good at is to answer these type of more obscure mark queries. Time and time again, someone is searching around the internet, trying to find information on their little pleasure, when they come across one of our listings. They know who the potter is and hey presto, they tell us!

Let's hope this happens with this one. Be patient though because it never happens over night.

For general free advice on how to research your collection, I wrote these pages:

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Peter (admin)