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Posted by: stefany Post Reply
06/06/2020, 13:59:51

most collected in the 80s/90s/and onwards:
some as "vintage" necklaces, many bought loose



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pendants from the Wedgewood factory
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Posted by: stefany Post Reply
06/06/2020, 14:08:53

unglazed porcelain -
the disc is 6cm diameter, =nearly 2.5inches and the relief depicts a sleigh load of xmas gifts

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pendant from the Wedgewood factory- reverse
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06/07/2020, 00:13:08

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handmade pottery with metallic lustre glazes obviously '80s...
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Posted by: stefany Post Reply
06/06/2020, 14:16:06

gunmetal and grey and golden, and a matching pair of earclips

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By amazing coincidence...metallic grey pottery beads
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Posted by: Rosanna Post Reply
06/07/2020, 10:33:24

I just got these on Friday, for 25 cents for the whole group, at an estate sale - these sales have just started opening up again in our area.

They are solid glazed pottery, about 25 mm diameter, and I had no idea about them until Stefany's post. So they apparently are from the same "metallic glazed pottery" era as her beads.

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Re: By amazing coincidence...metallic grey pottery beads
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Posted by: Ms J Post Reply
06/11/2020, 12:33:28

I suspect these are examples of the famous black pottery made in Oaxaca Mexico. Beads are common. The large size is a little unusual, but there are lots of variations since the work comes from many artisans. The metallic surface is also typical, and the sheen is due to hand burnishing, not glaze. Sometimes black shoe polish also enhances the surface.



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Very interesting - thanks!
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Posted by: Rosanna Post Reply
06/12/2020, 10:57:37



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Oaxaca burnished clay beads!
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Posted by: stefany Post Reply
06/20/2020, 03:56:59

here is what i believe is my loop of the Mexican black burnished beads

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I should have noticed this before
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Posted by: Rosanna Post Reply
06/21/2020, 10:27:21

I have this small dish on my bead table, which very helpfully came marked "Oaxaca". The glaze's color and sheen are identical to the large beads I just acquired.

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green glazed components handmade as collars, and a matching set-
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Posted by: stefany Post Reply
06/06/2020, 14:28:32

the leaf shapes on the left have a protective coat of black on their backs which isn't glaze but like thick paint, and the set of terracotta tabs with matching elastic bracelet and clip-on earrings are signed with their designer/craftsperson's name: GARON
tomorrow may post some more ceramic bead items-

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so-called Agateware
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Posted by: stefany Post Reply
06/07/2020, 00:04:20

pottery made of swirled clay slips of different colours-
at a pottery set up by Henry Gee in Somerset, UK in 1959, these beads were made which bear lettering on the back: "Protean Dunster G" -mainly table crockery was produced.
i've had these collar necklaces for very many years but only recently found a bit of information about the designer.
the convex/flat backed discs each has 4 holes and works with an interesting threading arrangement - one of the necklaces shows the back but its hard to see the lettering...
has anyone else got examples?

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these pottery beads are not new products and sometimes appear with antique beads
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Posted by: stefany Post Reply
06/07/2020, 00:17:02

my thought is they were being made at Rye Pottery in Sussex, UK

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Re: these pottery beads - welcome any more knowledge- could be Czech??
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06/07/2020, 02:05:34



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Re: more variety of ceramic beads in my collection- 1970s
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Posted by: stefany Post Reply
06/10/2020, 02:49:39

typical arty-crafty handmade pottery beads of the most likely early 70s -bracelet, choker and collar necklace- no maker's ID.

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Lustre beads from 1980s
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Posted by: stefany Post Reply
06/10/2020, 03:02:58

these beads were all bought loose, i threaded them up to be able to wear them often.
the inside "V" necklace are mostly glass beads, the larger roundish lustre ones from India, 2 horizontal beads are glazed ceramic and below that includes a czech moulded faceted rectangular shape and the curved ones up the sides may also be Czech-

the purpley assortment are all from the same potter (-cant remember her name at the moment)
and the 3rd necklace has bronze lustre glazed beads and some flattened glass beads that were on the strands of a bead curtain that was falling apart...

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Posted by: stefany Post Reply
06/10/2020, 09:15:03

These are porcelain, matte, unglazed, but built up with layers coloured with ceramic body stain -very trendy in the 80s, and tough rather than fragile. not quite the same as the swirled agateware discs in a previous image...

the curved brownish beads with pale cross designs are 3.5 cm long=1 ˝ inches-
the attached name: made by Brenda Pegrum

trendy stuff in the 1980s-

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Re: variety of ceramic beads bought in Dublin, 2005
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Posted by: stefany Post Reply
06/10/2020, 09:26:44

2 lustre pendants and 3 stoneware beads with blobs of bright glazes

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also from Dublin in 05
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Posted by: stefany Post Reply
06/10/2020, 09:32:09

the interest is the colour and pattern

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=and specially for Hans' interest
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Posted by: stefany Post Reply
06/10/2020, 09:38:12

unmistakeable but unfortunate fragments- evidence of pink lustre glaze on a hollow oval bead..which could have been similar to those shown a few days ago on a Czech/european sample card? 1950s perhaps?

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Thank you
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06/14/2020, 00:26:40



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Posted by: stefany Post Reply
06/13/2020, 08:06:57

these are 3cm long, hollow, and appear to be '50s style.. maybe they match the samples Floor showed?

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Very interesting. Here's my mystery ceramic bead.
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Posted by: Beadman Post Reply
08/01/2020, 17:58:52

I showed this bead at FaceBook a few days ago. First, the necklace it is incorporated into, and then the bead itself.

I received the bead from the Okrent Collection. I was interested in it because I collect face beads and head beads. But viewing the perforations (that have recessed apertures), I wondered if it might be a low-end ceramic ojime. (An opinion was expressed to me that it most-likely is not.)

This is a Janus bead, in the sense that it features two heads back-to-back. They are essentially the same faces.

Anyone interested can read about the rest of the beads in this necklace at FaceBook, in my new Group—BEADMAN - YOUR BEADS.

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Re: Very interesting- mystery ceramic bead.
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Posted by: stefany Post Reply
08/02/2020, 11:41:44

are both faces of the janiform bead the same, - moulded, or are they individually sculpted? we call pulling faces "Gurning", and there used to be gurning contests and championships!



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