Mochaware
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Large Mochaware Mug
$480.00This mochaware mug was made to hold a quart of beer or lager.
It was made in England circa 1870-1880. The dark mochaware “trees” are applied by hand (see below for the details of the process).
The colors are soft. The attractive design follows a pattern for English mochaware made for export to the European continent.
Near the top of the mug is a band of medium blue slip. Below are two thin bands of midnight brown slip, followed by a broad band of colored slip in moss green.
This single wide band is sparsely decorated with midnight brown mocha ‘Trees”.
The elegant spacing of the mochaware “Trees” enhances the mug’s beauty.Dimensions: is 6.5″ tall x 4.25″ in diameter
Condition: Very Good. There is a chip professionally restored on the inside of the mug.
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Antique American Mochaware Pitcher, Earthy Folk Art Design, Circa 1830
$560.00This antique Amercian pitcher, dating to circa 1830, is a rare example of slip-decorated creamware that evokes the spirit of mochaware but diverges from its typical look.
Rather than featuring the dendritic or banded motifs common in mochaware, this piece is dipped in a deep chocolate-brown slip and hand-decorated with a naïve yet charming grapevine motif.
The decoration, applied over the dark ground, includes a wavy line in ochre and iron red, interspersed with stylized clusters of orange grapes outlined in ochre, and leafy green vines.
This folk art approach to surface decoration is rustic and expressive, created by a potter experimenting beyond standardized designs.
The pitcher’s spout and handle are accented with hand-painted cobalt blue, adding another distinctive touch.
Though it shares mochaware’s use of colored slip and lathe-turning techniques, its painterly, organic decoration sets it apart.
Dimensions: 6.5″ tall x 4.5″ diameter
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Antique Mochaware Salt Shaker Made England Circa 1820
$460.00This mochaware salt shaker has an attractive design with four bands of intricate “diamond” impressions and six bands of light blue slip. One band of impressed decoration is colored with green slip, which adds to the salt shaker’s overall appeal.
It was made in England circa 1820 using a foot-powered, engine-turned lathe.
After shaping and impressing, the piece was fired and then returned to the lathe to be colored with the blue and green bands of slip.Dimensions: 5″ tall x 2.5″ diameter at the widest point
Condition: Excellent
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Mochaware Mug England, Circa 1815
$1,250.00This elegant English Mochaware mug, made around 1815, is decorated with broad and narrow bands of slip in shades of light and midnight brown, alternating in precise rhythm around the cylindrical body. Between the darker and lighter slip bands are three fine rows of inlaid rouletting in geometric motifs, lending a sense of movement and refinement to the design.
The contrast between the earthy tones and crisp white ground gives the piece an unexpectedly modern visual appeal, a hallmark of the best early 19th-century mochaware.
The applied handle is beautifully proportioned and terminates in sharply modeled acanthus leaves, a detail that reveals the potter’s skill and the neoclassical sensibility of the era.
The harmony of color, geometry, and texture in this piece captures the essence of English slip-decorated earthenware—functional yet deeply artistic.
Dimensions: 4.9″ tall x 4.9″ deep from spout to handle, 3.25″ diameter
Condition: Excellent
Price: $1,200
Decoration: Alternating light and midnight brown slip bands with three inlaid rouletted geometric borders
Material: Slip-decorated earthenware (Mochaware)
Style: Georgian English pottery, neoclassical form
Origin: England
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Mochaware Pitcher Mocha Ware Milk Chocolate Color Made England Circa 1815
$760.00This mochaware pitcher is decorated with bands of lovely milk chocolate-colored slip.
This color works beautifully with the unpainted creamware body of the handle and interior of the pitcher.
Just below the top edge, we see a band of black and white rouletting, and above the bottom edge is a similar black and white rouletted band.
Dimensions: 5.75″ tall x 4″ at the widest point
Condition: Good: two short hairlines of approximately half an inch are seen on either side of the top edge (see images).
Price: $760
Background of Mochaware: Mochaware pottery is slip-decorated, lathe-turned, earthenware with bands of colored slip applied to buff-colored or white bodies -
Early 19th Century Creil French Mochaware Coffee Pot
$1,995.00A Creil mochaware peach-colored coffee pot made circa 1810.
This elegant coffee pot features a dark brown mocha design on a light peach body. Mochaware was developed in Staffordshire in the late 18th century, but spread to continental Europe through the Middle-Eastern moss agate trade. Moss agate stones, which sport a similar tree-like design, were exported to the West through the port of al Makha, translated in English to “Mocha.” While moss agates were used as semiprecious stones in jewelry and objets de vertu for the upper classes, their dendrite design inspired potters such as Creil to create mochawares for more quotidian usage.
Dimensions: 10 in. H x 6 1/4 at widest point (25.4 cm H x 15.9 cm W)
Condition: Excellent visual condition, with invisible professional restoration to cover and spout. Some minor staining to clay body under the glaze on the foot.
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Large Mochaware Bowl with Both Cable and Marbled Decoration
$1,600.00We are pleased to offer this exceptionally large and rare mid-19th century English mochaware bowl. Each piece of mochaware is unique. Made in England circa 1840, this bowl is decorated on the inside with a three-color cable of dark brown, light blue, and light brown. The cable decoration covers most of the inside of the bowl. The ground on the inside of the bowl has two colors of brown slip. Over approximately two-thirds of the bowl, the ground is a medium brown. On the remaining third, the light brown ground is several shades lighter. The mix of colors, dark brown, light brown, and light blue, is appealing.
The outside of the bowl is decorated with three color slip in a cable decoration with an
unusual marbled effect on a white pearl-glazed creamware ground.
We must say that we have never seen a mochaware bowl this large and this beautiful.Dimensions: 11.25 inches diameter x 5.25 inches tall
Condition: Very Good. There is a star-shaped hairline on the underside of the bowl which does not go through to the base (see image #8).
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