Large Pottery Frogs Holding a Clam shell

[Indian Steve]

Howdy All, Just picked this up at a local thrift shop. It was just too cool to leave at $4.95. It is 10 inches across and 7 inches tall. It is marked A 15 B55 on the bottom and what looks like K 25 in ink. Does anyone know who might have made this? Thanks Steve

 

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[05tbowner]

The type of pottery is called "Majolica". If you try searching on ebay with the word majolica, I'm sure you could find something similar. The age I can not comment on as they started making similar items in the mid 1800's to today.

 

[Indian Steve]

Thanks for the info. Really hoping to find a maker so i can put a label on it for the daughter to use to sell it when i kick the bucket. {Not soon i hope}. I'm trying to leave her all kinds of strange stuff that she won't want. steve

 

[kieser sousa/rip]

Thanks for the info. Really hoping to find a maker so i can put a label on it for the daughter to use to sell it when i kick the bucket. {Not soon i hope}. I'm trying to leave her all kinds of strange stuff that she won't want. steve

lol That sounds like a good plan. The frog dish thing is pretty cool.....maybe label it with something gross like "vintage frog slime collection dish" to add to her wanting to sell it.

 

[05tbowner]

Most Majolica I find is French and German, and I'm leaning towards German with yours. I wish you luck trying to find a manufacturer, but I doubt you will, as majolica was very popular in the 1860's to 90's, and the same pattern and molds were use by multiple manufacturers.

 

[05tbowner]

Actually, heres one just like yours!
That Old House: Majolica at Goodwill, And A Dozen Darling Demitasse

 

[austin]

Worth a lot more than you paid. Way to go...

 

[Indian Steve]

Thanks All for the comments and Info. My wife and i are "collectors/ boarderline hoarders". We actually met in a Antique shop that i was living in. I was sleeping on an Empire couch that we still have. Been together 31years. My daughter is a recently graduated veterinarian who moved home for a local job. She actually grew up in Flea Market and yard sales and was a great seller by age 3. We like to remind her that she is an only child and will get all of this wonderful stuff when we are gone. steve