Antique Mochaware

The use of cable patterns on mochaware is an English invention created around 1810.

An attractive machine turned Mocha mug with broad bands of herringbone rouletting and slip-decorated bands of yellow, blue, and black. The handle terminals are particularly well fo...

A slip covered, machine turned Mocha jug with broad bands of light blue and thin lines of black at the top and bottom. The center with slip cup decoration in white, black and orange ...

This jug is part of our mixed earths and Mochaware collection.

An English Mochaware mug, machine turned, with herringbone bands of light blue above and below an overall design of dashes, diamond shapes, straight and wavy lines painted in black

Further decorated with straight and wavy lines of inlaid engine turning black slip. Mochaware is turned on a lathe. However, the lathe operator has the freedom to make each piece o...

An exceptional Mochaware jug with a wide band of light burnt orange slip molded in an elegant tall shape and decorated with vertical tree-like dendritic designs rising from a horizon...

A quart capacity Mocha Ware mug designed with inlaid engine turning and slip banding. Made of Pearlware decorated with horizontal stripes of light brown slip above and below six rows...

A large mochaware barrel shaped pitcher made of pearl-glazed creamware in the early 19th century.

Dimensions: 4.75" tall x 3.25" diameter Condition: Excelent Price: $1630 Background of Dendritic Decoration on Mochaware: The seaweed-like pattern results from a dynamic process in w...

No two mochaware pieces are the same. Each potter made his own choices in color and design.

A great deal of English Mochaware was exported to early America where it was everyday pottery.

This mochaware tankard has a rare design of white five quill and dot trailed slip decoration.

Double bands of dark brown frame the cable decoration. Mochaware is decorated on a lathe* (see Background of Mochaware below).

Quart size Mochaware mug. England, circa 1820. A beautiful tall mug, decorated with the engine turning dashes of inlaid black slip, bands of speckled baby blue, and light brown slip.

Mochaware bowl made in England. Decorated with brown "trees" over the bright orange slip.

For an image of a mug with similar decoration and further discussion of inlaid rouletted mochaware see: "Mocha and related dipped wares", by Jonathan Rickard pg. 37 fig. 54.    

A mochaware pottery jug decorated with multicolored slip, dots.

It is decorated across the top with rouletted bands covered in a blue slip and a large field of gray-brown slip which, is further decorated with mochaware "Trees." The unpainted embl...

T.his is an Imperial Quart mocha ware mug. The mug was made in England in a style that was popular on the European Continent. It has rouletted bands covered in a blue slip and a larg...

Mocha ware Pitcher. Made in England, circa 1810. Decorated with light and dark brown slip and slip trailing with a single cream color cup with four quills. The strong contrast betwee...

This mochaware salt shaker has an attractive design with four bands of intricate "diamond" impressions and six bands of light blue slip.

For a discussion of the use of quills on mochaware, see J. Rickard "Mocha and related dipped wares 1770-1939" pgs 88-94.

A mochaware pitcher with both cable and wavy line decoration.