Unusual

Love Field Potteries

Unusual Items

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    Unusual Items is a strange name for a page I agree. I settled on this for lack of a better term. I am reluctant to describe these items as rare because rare is such a relative term. Rare compared to the Hope diamond, the Wright brothers first airplane, or the Holly Grail? Not exactly! Are they pieces of Love Field that one will come across in an antique mall, estate sale or junkshop almost every time they make a shopping trip? Again, Not Exactly? Thus, the use of the word Unusual.

        Pitcher, Love Field? Of the items I term unusual the most unusual in my opinion is the Love Field Pitcher. Please forgive the photos but they were taken from, a scan of, a print that was emailed to me. I have been told by a Love Field employee that this pitcher was also glazed in solid Brown and Yellow.

What makes this item unusual is the fact that :

1) I have never personally seen an example other than in these pictures,

2) It is decorative as well as utilitarian (from an enlarged picture one can see a bunch of grapes molded into the side).

3) It is far from the standard Bristol (white) glaze used almost exclusively by Love Field. This item was listed on Ebay with a reserve over $200 that was not met.

Feeders/Waterers

        Chicken Feeder? Could be an industrial model or possibly a Turkey feeder. I'm not sure the proper name for it but Chicken Feeder sounds good to me. Granted this one is in rough shape but it is the only example I have ever seen. It appears to be simply an altered 4 gallon straight wall crock with 3 feeding positions on the sides. It is not definitely not the typical jug style chicken feed I'm used to finding. Even in this rough shape I was glad to give $45 for it.

Another interesting 2 Gallon Waterier or Feeder. Unfortunately the base is missing. But this is the only one of these I have ever seen.

_{From the Zahn Collection}

This unusual feeder sold on ebay for $100 + shipping

Water Coolers in themselves are not unusual but a Love Field cooler is not an item seen on a daily basis. Unlike Love Field Churns, all the Water Coolers I am familiar with have the double blue banding. Two and three gallons are the only sizes that I can attest to Love Field Potteries ever producing but other sizes were probably manufactured. Mr. Green states that 2-5 Gallon coolers were made. Five Gallons and larger were sold predominantly sold for industrial use.

_{From the Zahn Collection}

_{Some unusual things about this 3
gallon water cooler is that its spout appears to be made of bakelite and the lid
has no decoration. These two items may be married to the piece but if so the
spout is very old..}

Jay Stone Collection

Another Water Cooler with stamp on opposite side of spout (manufacturing flaw?)

Johnetta & Floyd Burke Collection

A 10 Gallon industrial use water cooler

Banded Churns are not categorized here as unusual so much for their overall style or unusual glaze but rather simply due to the fact that they are much harder to find than the non-banded models. They are also slightly larger than the non-banded type of the same size. These unusual items when found usually command no premium.

Hand-Turned Jug

Here is an interesting jug. In fact it is the only example I have seen. It is an unusual jug in that it is :

1. Hand-turned not molded

2. Is of the beehive rather than shoulder style and

3. It is all Bristol glazed rather than the normal two-tone style as shown above.

This is a 5 gallon jug with they Bi-plane stamp. (See Jug page for the more common style)

Up Date

While it may appear to the collector that Love Field Potteries produced mostly utilitarian pottery such is not the case. According to Henry Green Love Field Potteries not only produced utilitarian kitchen type stoneware ( Crock, Churns, and Jugs) they also produced pots (for Nurseries), bird bath,. mixing bowls, plates, platters, pitchers and even hand turned decorative vases and other custom order hand turned pieces They also made very large planters/vases (around five feet tall) for hotels. Pat Turner and Louie Stone were the two men responsible for hand turning of pottery at Love Field. Most of the above mentioned items I have never seen. So lets all keep looking.

I would sure like to find some of these items. Anyone with pictures of any such items is asked to share them with all of us by forwarding pictures through the links below.

For those interested in submitting pictures or information to be included on this web site please email them to: Lovefieldpottery@aol.com

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