old pottery? or new fakes?

[Jr1004]

I've searched everywhere, can't find the one mark, or even decipher it. The big brown one I can't find any marks on. Thank you all... Tried cleaning up the bottom of the big brown one, to find some type of mark, to no avail.

 

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[DCMatt]

They look modern to me but I have little knowledge of pottery.

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Porcelains/Ceramics/Pottery

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I'd say modern but not necessarily "fakes". Just modern pottery.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Welcome to Tnet from Canada Jr1004!

It would be helpful to know what part of the world you found these pieces in and their dimensions?
You've got a number of styles going on here.

Your first pic is of a ewer pitcher.

"A ewer is an older word for pitchers or jugs of any type, though tending to be used for a vase-shaped pitcher, often decorated, with a base and a flaring spout.
The word is now unusual in informal English describing ordinary domestic vessels."

Your second pic is of a food or grain storage container, likely missing it's pottery lid.
This piece looks similar to 19thc examples I find here in Canada, but I don't think yours is North American because of the slope of the shoulder.

The third item based on the style, looks to be Asian in origin?
Possibly a Korean or Japanese piece designed to hold water or wine.

Dave

 

[tamrock]

The second one does look like possibly a vintage utilitarian stoneware jar. The other two I call studio art pottery and there has been and still is today so many hobbyist that produce that type of ceramics that are sold at local artist gift shops and county fair type of venues. It's very difficult to determined who made them and even really how old they are, unless the artist signed it clearly dated it and listed their location on the piece. The nice thing about collecting studio art pottery is you can find a lot of very nice looking pieces pretty cheap at yard sales and thrift stores for a lot less than what they sold originally sold for when new. I have however bought and sold odd and unusual studio art pottery for a decent profit not knowing much at all about the item. Seems there are some who admire the funky, odd and modernist looking stuff as decor.

 

[Tony in SC]

Not really old, but the brown pot looks a grease/lard pot(missing the lid) from the 20's-30's?

 

[Jr1004]

Thanks everyone!! Sorry I was late to get back to the forum. I'm in the midwest. I've been thrifting lately and trying to learn, oh there is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy to much information and my brain is on overload The large pot missing the lid had thick glittery, rusty....copper-ish deposit all along the bottom. I tried to remove some of it to see if there was a makers mark anywhere.

Here are some pictures with the ruler next to it...

 

[Jr1004]

some others, I can't find...

 

[Yang Hao]

Very interesting pieces you have there. I was looking at the marking on the base. I’m guessing it’s not a chinese character. It does slightly resemble the character 田. But it has it has two added strokes as in 百。plus the 田 looks curved so my guess is it’s the artist signature possible two B with an an N or a Y. Happy treasure hunting

 

[Jr1004]

Yea I have turned it every way trying to figure it out...magnifying glass and all. Looks like curves in it... I gave up haha. I just bought them for vintage decor look. Thank you all for the help!!