MP POTTERY MARK ON BOWL

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MP POTTERY MARK ON BOWL

by RANDALL
(KENTUCKY)

MP POTTERY MARK ON BOWL

MP POTTERY MARK ON BOWL:- I HAVE AN 8 SIDED POTTERY BOWL WITH "MP" STAMPED ON BOTTOM. THIS IS THE ONLY MARK THAT I CAN SEE, AND EVERYWHERE I LOOK I CAN FIND NOTHING ON IT.

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Mountainside Art Pottery Bowl
by: Blake

Dear Randall, Your bowl was made by Mountainside Art Pottery of Mountainside, New Jersey. The pottery was started by John Kovacs in 1929 and closed around 1941. Kovacs was an immigrant from Hungary who had been a member of the Rutgers University Ceramics Club while a student. The pottery made Artware vases, figurines and bowls and used both a red and a white clay.
Try running a Google search for more information.

Yours, Blake

MP mark
by: Anonymous

This mark on your bowl is for McCoy Pottery. McCoy pottery was made in Zanesville, OH.

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Peter (admin) says:

Dear Anonymous

Being a Brit, I am no expert in McCoy marks, but I have never yet seen a McCoy mark with an MP. I have seen NM, MC, MCO and of course McCoy. What I have seen is Mountainside Art Pottery ware with MP on the mark.

On this site it is all about caring and sharing for the benefit of all, so please tell us where we can evidence the McCoy mark you mention - as I am curious as heck now.

Peter (admin)

Response to Pottery Mark "MP"
by: Maggie

I recently purchased a bowl with the same MP mark as shown at your website. I bought it because it was useful and attractive, and then became curious about the pottery mark. Thus far yours is the only site showing and noting this pottery mark. The bowl is clear-glazed heavy stoneware, roughly 3-1/2" high, 8-1/2" top diameter, and 5-1/2" bottom diameter. The decorative motif is a 2" wide scroll surrounded at top and bottom by plain, wide bands. Do you genuinely believe this to be as you've identified it? I know nothing about pottery, and could well believe the bowl I have, use, and enjoy is merely a contemporary cast clay piece.

MP Pottery Mark on Another Bowl
by: Peter (admin)

Hi Maggie

Thanks for your contribution on this one. We need a solution to this one as we have two different commentators giving two different solutions. I don't know if Blake's answer is correct, although he is an experienced hand in the world of pottery marks who visits the site from time to time to give us a hand in between his other commitments (and is often spot on with his answers to obscure queries).

The other anonymous contributor is unknown to me and when I politely asked him for a bit of further verification, we never heard from this person again.

Both answers may be wrong, but if I was to put money on the right answer I would go for Blake's.

I have tried to search for more information on the firm Blake talks about, but to no avail so far. Perhaps you could try, if the fancy took you.

Also, I would very much appreciate some photos of your dish and mark as we did not get one of the wares with the original submission.

If you do have time, please send them to me at:-

peter@theclayartist.com

...and mark them clearly for this page, as otherwise, I might have a senior moment and forget where they are for, and start asking you if you want a valuation appraisal.

I will then add them to your post.

Many thanks

Regards

Peter (admin)

MP marking
by: Karen

I have a bowl with identical marking. I went to Mountainside Art website and the marking is not the same as the one being identified here. The MP marking that I have is not MP close to and touching each other but Rather a large elongated M followed by a P.

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