Vintage Texas Paintings carries an assortment of fine antiques. However we specialize in more artistic works such as Harding Black pottery, San Jose Tile, and rare Texas Utilitarian pottery. Please view our assortment below and contact us if you have any questions.
1880-1890 Texas Game Table. Made in Schulenberg, Texas
32 x 32 Top x 30" Tall
The photo of the top appears rectangular, but the top is square.
Antique Texas Handmade Furniture Original Finish. The top has the original faux finish. The legs are the original finish as well. We have not cleaned or oiled the table as of yet. Hand Made Schulenberg, Texas Game Table<br><br><br><br>
"Plantation Desk" Texas Antique Furniture Circa 1870s
89" Tall. 49.5" Across 33" Deep
Made in Cat Spring Texas by Henry Sens Sr.
Henry Sens Sr. Maker. Handmade Texas Plantation Desk<br><br>All original wood finish and wavey glass. Pine. Pegged and Square nailed.<br><br>49.5 W x 89 T x 33 D<br><br><br>
Rare and Outstanding One/Half-Gallon Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Jug, Stamped “J.R,” Joseph Clifford Demerval "Cliff" Rushton, Rusk County, TX, circa 1873-1900, . Impressed “J.R,” for potter, Joseph C.D. Rushton (1841-1909). This jug displays one of the finest alkaline glazes that we have seen on an example of Southern stoneware. Awareness of Texas’s rich potting history has increased in recent years, in part due to the 2015 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston exhibit and corresponding publication, “Texas Clay: 19th-Century Pottery from the Bayou Bend Collection.” When put into proper context, many of Texas’s stoneware potteries can be viewed as an extension of the Edgefield, SC tradition as several of its major potting families began their careers in Edgefield, eventually traveling westward to Alabama and ultimately establishing shops in Texas. These included the Cogburns, the Prothros, the Duncans, the Leopards, and the Rushtons.. According to Southern ceramics scholar, Joey Brackner, Rushton's father, Joseph Clifford Rushton (1810-1868), learned the potter's trade in Edgefield, SC, before establishing a pottery circa 1834 in the community of Cedric, located on the border of Chambers and Randolph counties, Alabama. He potted there with his son, Clifford, the jug's maker, until his death in 1868. Clifford Rushton moved to Texas due to his father's death and the arrival of Reconstruction, potting in Rusk County until his death in 1909. For more information on the Rushton family of potters, see Brackner, "The Shaping of Texas Pottery. . ." in Texas Clay. Combining a beautiful glaze, desirable form, and rare maker's mark, this object is among the finest examples of Texas stoneware to come to market in many years. <br>Seargent<br>Utilitarian Stoneware<br>
Very Rare Two-Gallon Stoneware Jar, Stamped "N" Made by Milligan Frazier, Marion County, Texas origin, circa 1865, cylindrical jar with tooled shoulder and thin, semi-rounded rim, the surface covered in a golden alkaline glaze with overlying dark-brown streaks and mottling, Impressed below the rim with the maker's mark of "N". Incised is also a large numeral 2. An Edgefield, South Carolina-trained potter, who established a shop in Marion County, Texas during the mid 19th century. Pieces such as this jar, which bear a distinctive alkaline glaze, have been attributed to Milligan Frazier, an African-American potter involved for a period at Nash's operation. A Texas newspaper article run in the February 17, 1974 edition of The Longview Morning Journal, discusses Frazier and his pottery, including the distinctive glazes he produced, which were sometimes accented with clear glass runs. Amazingly, this information was provided by Nash's elderly son, leaving little doubt to its veracity. According to this article, Frazier was eventually producing ware independently at his homestead near the Nash site, known as "Milligan's Jug Works". Glass used to produce the glazes was acquired from local townspeople in the form of "old bottles, snuff jars, and blue glass bottles". The glazing process is described as follows: "First he would grind the glass into a fine powder, then mix it with powdered sand rock and water until it was like paint, then roll the pottery piece in the mixture. This finished, he would sprinkle finely ground white glass over the rim and drop, thus resulting in a variance of color after the pieces were baked. Browns of varying shades, streaked with black, seemed to be the dominant colors for his works". A fine example of Texas stoneware with a link to the Edgefield potting tradition. Very few signed examples of stoneware produced at the Nash Pottery have come to auction in the past several years. Provenance: A fresh-to-the-market example, recently found in East Texas.<br>Utilitarian Stoneware<br>