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Our featured pottery this time is a
pretty Broadmoor Pottery bust figure. The Art Deco
flapper bookend has a white high matte glaze and
is plaster filled for extra weight.
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From a different angle the same
elegant form in turquoise.
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This lovely piece in cobalt has the
same upper form but now has a square base
impressed with the Broadmoor-Colorado Springs
potters' mark.
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The coarse clay departs from
Broadmoor's usual smooth buff that makes up our
first two busts. Also notice the four plugs in the
base where the hollow form was plaster filled.
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The first two forms are usually
not too hard to find. Our square-based piece is
rare.
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We don't
believe this hollow bust was made by
Broadmoor. It
only resembles the others at first glance. It is
larger with sharper facial features and less tilt
to the head. Also notice the dangling earrings not
present on the Broadmoor busts above (link).
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We also spotted another just like
it with a white satin malinite (talc) glaze; very
much like some west coast pottery of the same
period (like Catalina Pottery).
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Our Spanish lady bookend may be
Broadmoor Pottery with its successful red glaze,
but also may be Camark Potteries who, or whom, had
the same red (link).
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The glaze seems somewhat thicker
and runnier than is typical for Broadmoor, and the
browner clay departs from the more typical
Broadmoor buff as well. Maybe Camark!
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As shown in the molding impression
the piece was designed by Elen Anderson (click).
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The shot below nicely illustrates
how plaster fills the hollow to give it a
more desirable weight as a bookend.
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The glaze on this Hippocrates
bookend doesn't look bad as far as gunmetal goes.
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This perfect Limited Edition
Broadmoor-Denver foil label is its only maker's
mark.
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We can't make out the mold
impression (below) on the back of the piece.
Probably somebody famous we never heard of (click). |
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Our next bookend was featured in
our guide dog article (link)
awhile back.
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The red dog is filled with plaster
and unmarked.
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Our marked gunmetal dog shows the
versatility of these forms. Without the plaster
fill it is one-half to one-third the weight and
makes a nice decorative piece.
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The guide dog figure is incised
"Gretchen" and has a Denver foil label backside. |
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Our red Sitting Indian in Oxblood
is shown in Carltons' Colorado Pottery
with a green drip glaze.
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The unfilled piece has a very
Broadmoor-like lacquered base (click). |
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Finally, only because it is
another bust form, we show a large head vase
attached to a console bowl.
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We believe it is an unmarked
gunmetal/Ming Yellow Broadmoor piece made in
Denver.
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