2024-11: Large canteen with complex swirling birds

2024-11: Large canteen with complex swirling birds

  The spout is 1.5″ long. Each handle extends 1.25″ from the body and is 3.1875″ high. Karen Charlie is a fine potter and this large canteen is the form, size and design for which she is best known. The size of the vessel impresses.  The...
2024-05  Canteen bank

2024-05 Canteen bank

This collection contains 5 other pots by Nellie, who has a reputation of being an indifferent potter and painter.  Occasionally one finds a superior example of her work (cf 2010-04) and pot 2024-05, described here, is one of these well-formed and painted examples....
2024-02  Bi-lobed early 20th century canteen

2024-02 Bi-lobed early 20th century canteen

One lobe has a maximum diameter of 2.6875-inches. The second lobe has a maximum diameter of 3.0-inches, a third larger. There is a 0.875-inch gap between the two lobes. The bimodal shape of this canteen is unique and intriguing.  However, the jar cannot stand upright...