Pot with button design.
This ceramic pot is about 4¾" wide and 4¼" tall.
Although some pottery was removed from museums in Baghdad and Samarra, those pots are probably still in Iraq somewhere, or possibly in Turkey, not here in California.
This pot was certainly never in Iraq at all, so please don't write, asking if this pot is from Iraq, because it isn't. It is not Iraqi, it is an all American pot.
Red, white and blue. True and true.
Here is an image of the bottom.
It was handmade, glazed and fired by my father John Cockerham.
The bottom reads, Cockerham 2001, that's more than 5,300 years too young to be sitting in a museum in Iraq. Maybe if it said, 2001 B.C. then I could see it being old enough, but it doesn't, so it simply can't be from one of those museums.
And while it is true that those Iraqi museums had some pots in them, but there are lots of pots all over the place, just because I'm selling this one doesn't mean it is from a museum in Iraq, that is just paranoid.
The two situations have NOTHING TO DO WITH EACH OTHER.
It is just a normal flower pot, no ghost inside, no cradle-of-civilization background, just a regular, new, shiny pot from Sacramento, California.
These flowers, known as "Tulips" are not included. This is what you should do with the pot when you buy it. Don't pass it off to a private collector, don't donate it to your local history museum, just put some dirt and a plant in it.
Tulips don't even GROW in Iraq, as far as I know.
The three button designs are attached using a technique called sprigging,
the same method that Wedgewood used. A thin mold is applied to the piece.
This button has a little eagle design on it. I think it is from a navy
design.
NO, NOT THE IRAQI NAVY.
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and $5 to the United Kingdom. I accept paypal, money orders and checks.
Send email: rob at cockeyed.com with any questions.