Tom tells me it's actually Marshall, Texas, not Georgia!! I thought I
knew. You can find them on EBay sometimes but I haven't found coffee cups
in years of looking.
Tina
On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 7:02 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi Tina,
>
> I looked at the bottom of the pitcher, and it is rough and has no markings.
>
> I have a Western Stoneware #4 Butter Churn in the front hall, filled with
> several canes, including cut-off pool cue sticks. Here is the 1929 catalog:
>
> http://www.westernstoneware.com/wsc_cat_1929.pdf
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 12/27/2016 4:31 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>
>> The coffee cups come from Marshall Pottery in Georgia. We have looked and
>> looked for more like them but they are as scarce as hen's teeth!
>>
>> https://www.google.com/search?q=Marshall+Pottery+Georgia&rlz
>> =1C1CAFB_enUS636US636&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0a
>> hUKEwiS7aaztpXRAhXKzFQKHbXLARcQsAQIHA&biw=1920&bih=1070
>>
>> I think they are beautiful and your photos show that!
>>
>> Tina
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 12:24 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Giving this discussion a little more thought, I brought the pitcher back
>>> and sat it alongside my monitor. While the colors are a little truer in
>>> the image posted on Dec. 20th, the texture and general appearance are
>>> closer to the first image, posted on Dec. 18th. Running my hand over the
>>> surface vertically, I can feel slight ridges running parallel to the blue
>>> lines. And there are small specks beneath the glaze that one can feel
>>> very
>>> clearly. All told, the first is the more accurate image, and the second
>>> is"over-smoothed".
>>>
>>> Incidentally, in one of Tina's SL images, Tom is holding a coffee cup
>>> from
>>> the same pattern.
>>>
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>
>>> On 12/25/2016 6:49 PM, Moose wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12/22/2016 8:54 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Funny. I do indeed have 20/10 vision, but I feel it was a different sort
>>>>>
>>>>>> of visual acuity at work here. I know what that kind of pottery looks
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> feels like, and the first versions didn't 'feel' right. Looking more
>>>>>>> closely/critically, I found that the reason was noise that gave a
>>>>>>> slightly
>>>>>>> rough texture to the appearance of the glaze.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And I felt exactly the opposite. I know that that glaze has texture
>>>>>> to
>>>>>>
>>>>> it. That's the natural "flaw" to the process and materials.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's not my experience of that sort of pottery that I've known. I
>>>> recall a slightly 'rustic' creation, with occasional, small lacunae,
>>>> were
>>>> the glaze wasn't applied perfectly and occasional rough spots, where
>>>> something in the clay stuck up or something hard got into the glaze.
>>>> Between these anomalies, however, it was very smooth and shiny - to
>>>> touch,
>>>> as well as sight.
>>>>
>>>> However,
>>>>
>>>>> in person, we have two eyes looking at the object and we have a
>>>>> built-in texture-averaging and noise-reduction mechanism in our visual
>>>>> system that is based on edge-detect and motion sensing. The rest of
>>>>> our vision is based on "content aware fill".
>>>>>
>>>>> Therefore, the first version was much more accurate to the surface
>>>>> characteristics, but the second version was more representative of how
>>>>> we would have seen it in person.
>>>>>
>>>>> Both are great, both are accurate, both are true, but the artistic
>>>>> intent is different.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nah, I think we are going to have to meet in Tullahoma, and see what
>>>> it's
>>>> really like. :-)
>>>>
>>>> No earlier than May, though.
>>>>
>>>> Spring Moose
>>>>
>>>>
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