Price guide to antique earthenware boxes. Earthenware is pottery that has not been fired to the point of vitrification and is thus slightly porous and coarser than stoneware and porcelain. The body can be covered completely or decorated with slip (a liquid clay mixture applied before firing), or it can be glazed. For both practical and decorative reasons, earthenware is usually glazed. Reference: Encyclopaedia Britannica
A Vally Wieselthier for the Wiener Werkstätte glazed earthenware covered box
1920s
impressed with WW monogram, MADE IN AUSTRIA and 149 VW
height including animal form handle 6 1/4in (15.9cm); width 6 1/4in (15.9cm); depth 3 3/4in (9.7cm).
Sold for US$ 625 (£ 446) inc. premium in 2013
A Pratt type earthenware clock group money box, incised J. Emery, Mexbro, South Yorkshire, circa 1840, the money box in the form of a long case clock, flanked by a man and woman with two dogs, 23cm, restored and damaged. According to John and Griselda Lewis, James Emery’s Pottery was close by Mexborough Old Pottery, 6 miles north of Rotherham. See John and Griselda Lewis, Pratt Ware, 1993, page 80-81.
Sold for 750 GBP at Gildings Auctioneers in 2017
AN ITALIAN MODERN EARTHENWARE BOX AND COVER, CAMBOGIA,
DESIGNED BY ETTORE SOTTSASS, CIRCA 1955,
from the Rochetto series, model no. ‘1396’
8in. (20.3cm.) long.
Sold for USD 125 at Christies in 2014
18th Century Delft Snuff Box. Circa 1770 hand painted in blue tin glazed earthenware with brass mounts. Lid with scene of smuggler unloading barrels from sailboat, sides fluted with hand painted floral, marked with underglaze upper case H with tail on base, 3 x 1 1/2 x 1″ high.
Sold For: $130 at Forsythes’ Auctions, LLC in 2018
An earthenware tobacco box. 18th/19th century (cm 3,5×7,5×4,5) (defects and wear).
Sold For: €100 at
Il Ponte casa d’aste in 2017
RARE LEEDS LEAD-GLAZED CREAM-COLORED EARTHENWARE CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
CIRCA 1770-75
Modelled as a lady’s head with a screw-on cover.
Diameter 2 in.
Sold for 875 USD at Sothebys in 2016
