ceramics

Ebay roundup, October 2007, part 1
This month, there are more knicknacks than you can shake even the fanciest stick at over on the mother of all online auction sites. The following aren’t necessarily excellent deals, but everything here is at least interesting.
As usual, I’m avoiding everything labeled misleadingly (i.e., "Roycroft era," "Stickley style," "maybe Stickley?," etc. … I’ll have plenty more up next week and the week after.
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bits & pieces on ebay, September 25 2007
I’m trying to keep to my policy of only including items here that are listed honestly – i.e., not labeled "Stickley-era," "possibly Roycroft," etc.
These are mostly unsigned items, either underpriced or honestly priced in my opinion (although I did include a few interesting signed items, too). While there were plenty of other good deals this week, many were expiring today or tomorrow, so I didn’t include those.
furniture
- high-backed Stickley rocker
- slat-back/arm bench with leather seat
- small bookcase / magazine rack
- sofa table with interesting tenon detail
- Limbert daybed with spade / leaf cutout
- Limbert child’s rocker with original seat
- light wood wall shelves
ceramics
- matte green hanging flowerpot
- Seiz Pottery doorbell
- matte blue Zanesville bowl
- pink & green Fulper vase
- nautilus shell motif tile in oak frame
- unsigned green glossy low bowl
- lot of 40 Mexican talavera tiles, 4×4, floral design
metal
- pair of oak and green glass table lamps
- Limbert lamp base in hammered brass
- copper log box with oak tree motif
- brass inkwell
- desk tray in copper with silver inlay
- hammered copper humidor
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Gladding, McBean

The firm of Gladding, McBean has produced materials for hundreds – and probably thousands – of beautiful historic homes here in California. The Greene brothers used their stuccoed planters at the Gamble House, and Bernard Maybeck used their roof tiles, chimney tops, planters and more in both his residential, civic and commercial projects. While it is now a division of Pacific Coast Building Products and no longer independently-owned, they are still making the clay and terra cotta items they’ve become known for since 1874. Today they are the only remaining maker of ornamental hand-made terra cotta in this country.
The company is still going strong today, producing those items and all sorts of architectural terra cotta work, fire flashed clay floor tiles, and a whole range of garden pottery. Their website has a number of photo galleries; their garden pottery, especially the big oil jars, are beautiful, as are the tiles and decorative chimney tops, the perfect finishing touch to any A & C home.
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