Yellow Long Neck Bird Planter With 'E' impressed Pottery mark

by Becky
(Virginia)

Yellow Long Neck Bird Planter With 'E' impressed Pottery mark:- My mother passed away about almost two years ago, I am just now getting the willpower to go through her things. She was a collector of everything for 70 years, she never threw anything away.

I found a yellow glazed bird of some sort; it is about 8" tall and 7" long. It has a long neck and a really short beak. The feet and beak on hand painted red. The bird is made to be a planter, I think. It has the opening in it's back.

The inside of the planter has what looks like to be a white raised glossed E. The initials inside of the planter look like JWIC, I'm not really sure. The bottom of the duck has hand marked of SSP or USP. I'm sorry I'm not more helpful, but the bottom of the bird has yellow glaze covering some of the marks.

I would appreciate any help with this one; I don't have a clue about this bird. I've never seen anything like it.

Thanks in advance for your time,

Becky

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Peter (admin says)

Dear Becky

Thanks for posting us this intriguing submission "Yellow Long Neck Bird Planter With 'E' impressed Pottery mark".

Sorry to hear about your Mother. Hope you are feeling better.

I can't make out out head or tail from your photo.

It would serve you well to use our photo-merge service, so we can publish a picture of the item alongside the mark - for ease of identification.

For example, a collector can identify pottery marked with the initials "U.S.P." as a likely piece of Parian pottery from Bennington, Vermont.

Bennington of Vermont, New England did a range called Yellow Ware.

I don't know too much about Bennington ware apart from the fact that this town was the center for the oldest pottery manufacture in the US, dating from 1793.

Bennington is collectible and expensive. You are talking of hundreds of dollars for a pitcher for example.

Here's what ehow.com explains it:-

"Bennington Pottery, a New England studio that's synonymous with old world crafting and diverse design. A 2009 Antiques Roadshow program airing on PBS featured an 1849 Bennington Pottery Lion appraised by professionals at between $4,000 and $8,000, and the artifact wasn't in great condition. This could happen to you if you make the effort to sleuth out the pedigree of your Bennington.

Some may have numbers. Match them to unique patterns to verify authenticity: #10 "Paul and Virginia, with and without figures"; #11 - "Arabesque"; #12 - "Tulip and Sunflower with stippled background"; #14 - "Pond Lily"; #15 - "Oak Leaf, smooth background with palm tree under spout" and, #16 - "Oak Leaf, with stippled background." If you have a piece marked #13, it's a fake. The company refused to put the "unlucky" #13 on any of its production pieces."

Bennington Yellow Ware is easily identifiable - it is a browny runny glaze and comes in every type of tableware and decorative ware including animals.

As you included no ware photo, your item cannot be properly identified, unfortunatley.

If in doubt, use the photo-merge service. That's what it is there for!

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Thanks for your interesting query

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Peter (admin)