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<h1>Modern Variations</h1>
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<h2 align="left"> Page 1</h2>
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<p>There are a lot of these: 500+ pictures, of over 1000 cow creamers. Thus three pages are needed to contain this part of the herd. I’ve grouped many of them but
have left a few as individuals either because they’re special, or to demonstrate ‘class’ characteristics,
or just because they got left out of the group photo or were purchased after it was taken. I’ve also tried
to order them a bit, starting by color and then by other
features, ending up with some interesting ones from around the world, and finishing with the few creamers (and sugars) made as part of ‘Cow Parade’. You’ll also note that while most of these are 20th century (and a few from the 21st century), there
are a few scattered older ones that didn’t seem to fit well elsewhere.</p>
<p> On this first page, after a few somewhat special cow creamers that I've put up front, they are ordered by color. First white ones, then white with some decorations, then black and white, then brown and brown and white, then purple and finally blue. After finishing colors on page 2 there are cows with flowers, a bunch of miscellaneous cows, a number of groups of cows with family resenblances, and then at the bottom of the page the lovely hand-made, Native American Acoma Pueblo Pottery cow creamers. Page 3 starts off with cows from different countries, then a number of plastic cows, non-silver metal ones, a few 'mistakes', and finally the Cow Parade creamers and sugars. If you're looking for something you can't find, email me.</p>
<p> <div align="center"> As a reminder, click on any thumbnail to see a larger picture.</div></p>
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<a href="mystoryimages/bessie.jpg"><img src="mystoryimages/bessier.jpg" width="190" height="140" alt="My first cow creamer"></a>
<a href="mystoryimages/dads.jpg"><img src="mystoryimages/dadsr.jpg" width="190" height="140" hspace="1" alt="My father's cow creamer"></a>
<a href="modernvariation/2bessiencalves.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/2bessiencalvesr.jpg" width="200"
height="110" alt="Bessie cow creamer with calves"></a>
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<blockquote>
<p>Let’s start with a repeat showing of the ones that started it all – my first cow Bessie and my dad’s; and --
per Bessie and her calves -- what happens when you put a bunch of these animals together. My father’s
little blue creamer is German porcelain with a Delft design, and dates from the 1910s. Bessie comes
from the late ‘40s or early '50’s, and has been identified by sellers variously as “made by American
Pottery for Disney by Shaw”, or as one of the animal figurines of Robert Simmons of California. I
favor the latter interpretation. Both of these creamers are faiuirly common and readily available on eBay. </p> </blockquote>
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<a href="moremv/ingridnew.jpg"><img src="moremv/ingridnewr.jpg" width="210" height="160" alt="Cow creamer by Ingrid Barnes"></a>
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<p>Next, here are some handmade ones that I partuicularly favor. Here are two single-hole creamers
that were also featured in "My Story". They were made for me and
wood fired pottery by Ingrid Barnes. Her husband and I were college classmates and
fraternity brothers way back when, and I had been pestering Ingrid for decades to
make me a cow creamer. She finally came through (after I made her a Nantucket
Lightship berry basket, nothing like a bribe for motivation). I find the coloration
on these fascinating. Except for the blue spots and edging, Ingrid assures me it's
a 'gift of the kiln gods', attributable solely to the wood firing process.</p>
<p>I should note here that the wonderful cow creamers and efigies from the Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico are
also hane made and individually unique though of a common theme. ,
I have enough of them that I have given them their own section at the bottom of page 2. </p></blockquote>
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<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="teapots/sg214a.jpg"><img src="teapots/sg214ar.jpg"
width="195" height="150" hspace="5"alt="Holstein creamer by Christy Crews Dunn"></a>
<a href="teapots/sg214b.jpg"><img src="teapots/sg214br.jpg"
width="185" height="150" alt="Brown creamer by Christy Crews Dunn"></a>
<blockquote>
<p>These two are also hand thrown and sculpted, made at my request by Virginia artist Christy Crews Dunn.
There’s a bit more about her by the picture of the teapots she also made for me…but basically she
handcrafted original pottery including a wide range of very cute animal ‘effigy’ pots in ‘The Sylvan
Studios’ in Keysville VA, before she mioved to Texas. I believe you may still view (and order) her fascinating critters at <a href="http://www.christycrewsdunn.com/">www.christycrewsdunn.com</a>
or <a href="http://ccdunn.startlogic.com/">http://ccdunn.startlogic.com</a> </p></blockquote>
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<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="moremv/536wa.JPG"><img src="moremv/536war.jpg"
width="200" height="150" hspace="5"alt="Jezebel & friends"></a>
<a href="moremv/536wb.JPG"><img src="moremv/536wbr.jpg"
width="217 height="150" alt="Back of Jezebel & friends"></a></div>
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<p>These weren't made for me, but they are sill favored. The tall one, named Jezebel by my webmaster daughter-in-law,
is also featured with a brown companion on the pitchers pace. Many years later I got her friends- small enough to quaklify
as creamers. Jezebel herself came from an antique fair in Arlington VA...her friends were found on Ebay, In addition to their
external embellishments,
they have little blue polkadots all over their insides. I believe
they were all made by a (as yet unknown) South Carolina artisan - certauinly one with a sense of humor if a
rather distorted view of cows. </p></blockquote>
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<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="moremv/m135a.jpg"><img src="moremv/m135ar.jpg" width="138" height="150" hspace="5" alt="susie diuncan creaner"></a>
<a href="moremv/m135b.jpg"><img src="moremv/m135br.jpg" width="147" height="150" alt="back"></a>
<a href="moremv/m140a.JPG"><img src="moremv/m140ar.jpg" width="130" height="150" hspace="5" alt="susie diuncan creaner brown"></a>
<a href="moremv/m140b.JPG"><img src="moremv/m140br.jpg" width="154" height="150" alt="back"></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p> I acquired a large pitcher version of this cute bulgy blue-eyed black and white cow quite a while before
I found its companion creamer.You know it's for cream because that's what it says on the udder
They are shown together with more iunformation about the maker, Susie Duncan, on the Pitchers page.
Later still, I found a shorter, squattier brown and white version that she made in '83 and bought it to
keep company with its cousin. </p></blockquote>
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<a href="moremv/sg296w.jpg"><img src="moremv/sg296w.jpg" width="122" height="150" alt="Caricature"></a></div></td>
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<p>I love handmade cows with character. This one is brown and white but also sports a
mangnificent up-front pink udder and big googly eyes. It seems to be saying 'Oh, dear..." or something
of the sort with its hooves to its face. There is a signature scratched into the bottom but I cant
make it out well enohgh to try to say what the nbame is. </p>
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<td><a href="modernvariation/633.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/633r.jpg" width="200" height="180" alt="Folk art cow creamer from Ontario"></a></td>
<td>
<p>This cute, ‘folk art’ cow also hails from Ontario. Much more modern, but also of a very dense,
sandy clay with a heavy glaze. </p>
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<td><a href="modernvariation/6391.jpg"><img src="modernvariation/6391r.jpg" width="200" height="161" alt="Folk art cow creamer marked for P.W.+Co"></a></td>
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<p>Another folk-art creamer, again very heavy and hard ceramic with I believe a salt glaze, that
the sellers say they bought in Wisconsin. It has hand-scribed marks that read “P.W.+Co.” and “Crotte
100” I found an identical one, so while it may be handmade it isn't unique. </p>
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<td colspan="2" > <div align="center"><br>
<a href="modernvariation/819a.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/819ar.JPG" width="169" height="200" hspace="5" alt="Brown cow caricature creamer by HandmadeHoillows, front"></a>
<a href="modernvariation/819b.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/819br.JPG" width="200" height="132" alt="Brown cow caricature creamer by HandmadeHoillows, side"></a>
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<blockquote>
<p>This one only a mother (or a crazy collector) could love – it’s hand made from very heavy clay and
came from HandmadeHollows which is in Chicago.</p></blockquote>
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<td colspan="2"> <div align="center"><br>
<a href="modernvariation/824a.JPG">
<img src="modernvariation/824ar.JPG" width="200" height="158" hspace="5" alt="Heavy clay US folk art cow creamer, left"></a>
<a href="modernvariation/824b.JPG"><img
src="modernvariation/824br.JPG" width="150" height="158" alt="Heavy clay US folk art cow creamer, front"></a>
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<blockquote>
<p> Yet another unusual one, pretty obviously one of a kind, and handmade from very
heavy clay. Written inside it says, "Caro, Her Cow". The seller claimed it was Amnerican 19c folk art, and indeed it
likely is. It is certainly unique, and nicely molded, painted and glazed. </p></blockquote>
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<td> <div align="center">
<a href="moremv/526new.jpg"><img src="moremv/526newr.jpg" width="166" height="150" alt="Cup spahed creamer from Northern Ireland"></a></div></td>
<td>
<p> This beautifully fashioned cup-shaped cow or bull creamer is my only piece from Northern Ireland. It sold very
inexpensively on ebay, which is a shame for the maker since it is such a delightful little cow.</p>
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<div align="left"><a href="modernvariation/138mv.jpg"><img src="modernvariation/138mvr.jpg" width="200"
height="190" alt="Cute handmade Danish cow creamer by Susanne"></a></div>
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<p><br>
Here’s a cute handmade cow from Denmark, signed “Susanne, Danmark”</p>
<p> </p>
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<a href="moremv/m131w.jpg"><img src="moremv/m131wr.jpg" width="175" height="150" alt="artisan b&w cup shaped creaner w/small head"></a></div></td>
<td><p>This artisan made cup shaped creamer has a caricature head. It has a small
impressed mark that seems to read "sava" but I have no more ionformation.</p></td>
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<td><a href="modernvariation/M121.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/M121r.JPG" width="200" height="153" alt="Handmade Czech cow creamer from Vanda & Valerie"></a></td>
<td>
<p>A couple of enterprizing ladies from the Czech Re[public have taken advantage of etsy to peddle their wares.
This one is both unusual and cute – obviously hand-made -from the atelier of ‘Vanda and Valerie’ of
Prague who make a very nice line of modern pottery. It's also in the Czechoslovakia section on MV page 3.</p>
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<td> <div align="center">
<a href="moremv/m76.jpg"><img src="moremv/m76r.jpg" width="116" height="150" alt="Small clay cow pitcher or creamer with handle"></a></div></td>
<td>
<p> This nicely fashioned handmade red clay cow pitcher or creamer with handle came without attribution, but I
would guess it's southwest US or Mexico. Of course most of rhe earthenware pitchers,and other vessels from Mexico and South
America are hand-fafashioned, albeit often in quantity, I have necer seen aniother small one like this </p>
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<td height="10" colspan="2" scope="col"> <div align="center"><br>
<a href="moremv/cowmana.jpg"><img src="moremv/cowmanar.jpg" width="120" height="160" hspace="5" alt="Hunter in cow suit creamer, front"></a>
<a href="moremv/cowmanb.jpg"><img src="moremv/cowmanbr.jpg"
width="125" height="160" alt="Hunter in cow suit, side"></a>
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>Now for a very few unusual ones before heading into the rest of the herd:</p>
<p>This extremely interesting creamer, a hunter in a cow suit, deserves to be up front in pride of
place, if for no other reasons than its uniqueness and the quality of the workmanship. It is German
porcelain, likely early 20c, and I’d guess almost certainly from near Rudolstadt, a town in the
German <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_Germany" title="States of Germany">Bundesland</a>
of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuringia" title="Thuringia">Thuringia</a>, close to the <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuringian_Forest" title="Thuringian Forest">Thuringian Forest</a>
to the southwest, and to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jena" title="Jena">Jena</a> and <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar" title="Weimar">Weimar</a> to the north, and the locale
of many porcelain factories. This is the town of the Schafer & Vater Porcelain factory – see
Favorite Brands for my collection of their marvelous animal creamers – and their success seemingly
inspired many other porcelain factories in the area to create similar whimsical items (or
vice-versa?). While I would like to believe that this is “S&V”, I sincerely doubt that it is one
of theirs based on the paint and material, but it is certainly characteristic of the area (as is a
chicken that I bought thinking mistakenly it might be S&V).</p></blockquote>
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<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="moremv/772ab.jpg"><img src="moremv/772abr.jpg"
width="228" height="150" alt="Two hand-molded green cow creamers"></a><div>
<blockquote>
<p>These beautiful, hand-molded green cow creamers are a mystery to me. The smaller one arrived from Canada,
and the larger (which is missing her right ear) was part of a fine small collection of a lady from
New Jersey. They are very well made and although they have their horns curled against their
foreheads like some of the Victorian era Staffordshire creamers, I would guess that they are American
or Canadian, and very likely late 19c. They’re sufficiently different and interesting that I felt
they should be highlighted up near the front of this part of the collection, and I would be delighted
if someone could shed more light on their origin and provenance. </p><blockquote>
</td>
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<td><div align="center">
<a href="moremv/744glass.jpg"><img src="moremv/744glassr.jpg" width="167"
height="150" alt="Small glass cow creamer"></a></div></td>
<td>
<p>This creamer is also sufficiently unusual that it deserves a bit of up-front attention – all glass,
quite delicate, and accompanied by a glass spoon that may or may not have originally come with it.
Thankfully the English lady who sold it to me packed very well.</p>
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<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="moremv/sg293a.jpg"><img src="moremv/sg293ar.jpg" width="244" height="150" alt="Exon Wemyss, side"></a>
<a href="moremv/sg293b.jpg"><img src="moremv/sg293br.jpg" width="124" height="150" hspace="5" alt="Exon Wemyss front"></a></div>
<p> Here is the last of the 'up front' modern cows, a winsome Exon Wemyss one by Brian Adams. It comes with a story.</p>
<p>Some time ago, a very lovely lying down cow creamer advertised as Wemyss Ware came up on eBay; I bid too low and lost. So I looked them up and learned from wemyssware.co.uk that “The ‘Wemyss Ware’® name has had a long and distinguished history from its beginning in 1882. It was the brainchild of Robert Heron, the Pottery owner, and Karel Nekola, a gifted decorator whom he had brought over from Bohemia. It is probably the most highly collectable and sought-after Scottish pottery, producing beautifully hand painted pottery cats, pigs, other animals, giftware, decorative tableware, tiles and limited editions, all made in Scotland… For 30 years since 1985 ‘Wemyss Ware’® has been produced by the Griselda Hill Pottery Ltd® in the Fife village of Ceres, ten miles west of St. Andrews. “ I wrote to them and asked is they had a cow creamer available, and they responded quickly that Wemyss had never made one, and it was likely that what I had seen was “Exon Wemyss Ware”. So of course, I had to investigate that.</p><p>
I found the website http://wemysswarebook.com/tag/exon-wemyss/ entitled “A tribute to Brian Adams (1945-2016)” which has a long and quite fascinating story that starts by noting that “To those familiar with Wemyss Ware, Brian Adams was well known as the founder of the Exon Art Pottery in Ashcombe, Devon that produced a recreation Wemyss Ware from 1988.” To briefly summarize from that article, Brian started in government work but loved painting and pottery and by 1982 became a stilled restorer, focused on using original production techniques. The idea of producing a ‘recreation’ Wemyss was initiated by the Prince of Wales in 1987. Brian was induced to take on the project and then met Esther Weeks, the last Wemyss decorator from their old and original Bovey Pottery (now the Bovey Tracey Pottery Museum, for which Brian was restorer and curator until his death) . Together they developed the Exon Wemyss line of pottery, very like the original. In 1993 Esther moved to the Griselda Hill pottery, but between 1988 and 2005 some 2700 pieces of Exon Wemyss were produced, most decorated by Brian. In addition to my sweet-faced cabbage rose cow creamer shown here (which has a broken and repaired tail), there are versions with yellow flowers and a fly on top, as well as one with horns…for which I will be searching. </p></td>
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<td height="10" colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="modernvariation/aplico.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/aplicor.jpg" width="200"
height="140" alt="White Aplico cow creamer"></a>
<a href="modernvariation/608ws2.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/608ws2r.jpg"
width="200" height="140" hspace="5" alt="White William-Sonoma cow creamer"></a>
</div>
<p>To put at least a modicum of order into the large number of creamers in this category, let’s sort
some of them by color - starting with plain white, if for no other reason than that seemed to be the
favorite for ‘new’ cow creamers being offered at the end of the 20c and the start of the 21c (by 2012
or so, plain colors started to be more in style though white is still popular). I have learned that
Chuck Williams, who founded Williams-Sonoma in 1956 and was known as an innovator, takes credit for
having started the white cow-creamer ‘fad’ in the US. To quote a 2004 article about him in USA
Today, “Williams recalls the 1960s trip to France when he spied the whimsical piece — only it was
covered with colored pieces and featured the city's crest on the cow's flank….’I said to someone that
if I could only just get it in white, I could probably sell it in the United States,’ he says. ‘Well,
they said that was impossible; they were only made as local souvenirs. …Well, I got them in white. We
sold thousands right away.’" Here’s another quote, from a tag on a white cow creamer found in a
Williams-Sonoma store in 2015: "Chuck's Find: William-Sonoma founder Chuck Williams first spotted
this whimsical creamer at Apilco's Paris showroom in 1960. Chuck fell for the simple yet charming cow
shape, and it became one of the first pieces of Apilco French porcelain that William-Sonoma ever
carried." So, here on the left is an Aplico creamer (marked for them), on the right a recent one
marked for Williams-Sonoma. </p>
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<tr>
<td height="10" colspan="2" ><div align="center"><br>
<a href="modernvariation/544ws1.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/544ws1r.jpg" width="195"
height="145" alt="White William-Sono0ma cow creamer with flowers"></a>
<a href="modernvariation/ws2clone.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/ws2cloner.jpg"
width="210" height="145" hspace="5" alt="Two Pier 1 white & black cow crteamers"></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p>Well, it turns out Chuck isn’t a complete white purist, because here’s a Williams-Sonoma marked
creamer with flowers. Nor it seems was Chuck terribly worried about exclusivity, because here is a
pair (yes, with black spots) from Pier 1 from the identical mold (and likely the same manufacturer) as the W-S one pictured
above.</p></blockquote>
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<tr>
<td colspan="2"> <div align="center"><br>
<a href="modernvariation/whitegroup1.jpg"><img src="modernvariation/whitegroup1r.jpg" width="206"
height="140" alt="Herd of white cow creamers"></a>
<a href="modernvariation/whitegroup2.jpg"><img src="modernvariation/whitegroup2r.jpg" width="208"
height="140" hspace="5" alt="Group of white cow creamers"></a>
<a href="modernvariation/whitegroup3.jpg"><img src="modernvariation/whitegroup3r.jpg"
width="208" height="140" alt="Herd of white cow creamers"></a>
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>Chuck Williams was certainly right however about the popularity of white cow creamers. Almost every
kitchen shop and department store sells some version of the ‘plain white’ cow creamer. Most of the cows in these 'herd' shots are unmarked and many of them look alike with minor variations, but a few deserve a bit of a mention. It the picture on the left, the cow on the far right was made in China for Fox Run, a gift shop in Deep River, CT. Next to it is a cow marked for "Porcelaine de France"; there are a number of these with gold embellishments and transfer pictures on the Advertising and Souvenirs page. In the middle picture, the one in the center front is one of Chuck's Williams-Sonoma Market Place creamers, and on the far right one of the many, often decorated with flowers or birds, from Cordon Bleu. In the third picture, on the far back left is a cow creamer from Limoghes, next to a kneeling one from Fitz & Floyd. </p></blockquote>
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<tr>
<td colspan="2"> <div align="center"><br>
<a href="modernvariation/5388mv.jpg"><img src="modernvariation/5388mvr.jpg" width="200"
height="95" alt="Three white cow creamers"></a>
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>Two more plain white cow creamers here flank a kneeling version with a handle that has black hooves, horn tips, and eyes</p></blockquote>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="modernvariation/769.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/769r.JPG" width="200" height="142" alt="Better Homes & Gardens white cow creamer"></a></td>
<td>This plain and simple (but subtly different) version is marked for Better Homes and Gardens.</td>
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<td><a href="moremv/195w.jpg"><img src="moremv/195wr.jpg" width="204" height="150" alt="Limoge white cow creamer"></a></td>
<td>Some may be plain but are also fancy - e.g. this one is by Limoges, France, so marked inside the lip of the raised fill hole</td>
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<td>
<a href="moremv/873w.jpg"><img src="moremv/873wr.jpg" width="201" height="150"
alt="Food network white cow creamer"></a></td>
<td>Here's one from "Food Network" - hefty, sturdy, made for regular use, microwave &
dishwasher safe, avaiklable in a whole rainbow of colors but I like the whiteb one.
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<tr>
<td><a href="modernvariation/6mv.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/6mvr.jpg" width="200" height="86" alt="Gerold Porzellan and White Magic cow creamers"></a></td>
<td width="90%">
<p> Here are some examples of rather ‘fine’ pure white cow creamers – one of the two on the outside is
marked in green for Gerold Porzellan, Bavaria, Made in Western Germany (their post-1949 mark), and
has a black and gold crown sticker on its side from “E&R” (for Ebeling and Reuss ) and Western
Germany (meaning after E and W Germany separated in 1949). It also has “Germany” and the item
number “1498” impressed on the lower right side of the belly, as does its mate which is otherwise
without any marks. There is a very fine web site, produced by JoAnn Snow who collects Gerold
Porzellan, that gives a lot of information about this company which operated in Tettau, Bavaria,
under various names from 1937 – 1997. See <a href="http://www.gerold-porzellan.com/">www.gerold-porzellan.com</a>;
it contains a shot of one of these creamers under kitchenware. Many of my other German cow creamers
bear a similar impression of Germany and an item number but are otherwise unmarked; it may be that
they are also from this company. The creamer with the cover in this picture is marked “White Magic,
2092A, Holland”, and also has a joined script J and P. Goebel’s pure white cows, of similar quality,
were shown in the Favorite Brands Theme, and there are a couple Delft painted and marker version of this White Magoc cow on that page. </p>
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<tr>
<td><a href="modernvariation/8mv.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/8mvr.jpg" width="210" height="75" alt="Male, female and x white cow creamers"></a></td>
<td>
<p><br>
Here’s another interesting characteristic of white creamers – they come in all sexes… M, F, X…</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> <div align="center"> <br>
<a href="modernvariation/193a.jpg"><img src="modernvariation/193ar.jpg" width="200" height="151" alt="Male white cow creamer"></a>
<a href="modernvariation/423.jpg"><img src="modernvariation/423r.jpg" width="200"
height="151" hspace="5" alt="French white cow creamer"></a>
<a href="modernvariation/sg180.jpg"><img src="modernvariation/sg180r.jpg"
width="165" height="151" alt="Sitting white cow creamer"></a>
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>The one on the left here, with the dots for eyes, is another of the ‘boys’, from Taiwan. The one in the middle with big eyelashes is a French lady, sporting on her belly a green fleur de
lis with “Veritable Porcelaine de grand feu”. The heavy little seated one is stamped “WCL”, and is here because it’s an example of a white one that wasn’t always that way. The little black specks
indicate that at one time it had black ‘cold paint’ spots applied over the glaze, that have since
washed off. I have a couple others like that. </p></blockquote>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="modernvariation/720.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/720r.jpg" width="200" height="147" alt="Macy's white cow creamer"></a>
<a href="modernvariation/655.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/655r.jpg" width="195" height="147" hspace="5" alt="Cream cow creamer"></a>
<a href="modernvariation/702.JPG"><img src= "modernvariation/702r.jpg" width="205" height="147" alt="White cow creamer"></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p>The rather stout cow with legs in an awkward position is marked “The Cellar Whiteware, Made in China
Exclusively for Macy’s”, which is where I bought it on sale for $5.99…their current
version of the ‘plain white cow creamer’. Neither of the other two are marked, but the cream colored
one facing to the right bears a striking resemblance to some of my Czechoslovakian and Austrian
cows. It’s not unusual to find that a factory will produce plain white glazed versions of their
otherwise colored wares. The only strange thing about the little gal on the right is that she has
only three teats. </p></blockquote>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="moremv/Sg32cnew.jpg"><img src="moremv/Sg32cnewr.jpg" width="146"
height="175" alt="Coventry white cow creamer"></a>
<a href="modernvariation/sg103a.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/sg103ar.jpg"
width="125" height="175" hspace="5" alt="Bisque paint it yourself white cow creamer">
</a><a href="modernvariation/sg255.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/sg255r.jpg"
width="125" height="175" alt="Studio Nova white cow creamer" ></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p>Here on the left is another example of a plain white version of a creamer that also comes in a
variety of colors. Although unmarked, it’s mold 5540 from Coventry and there are several others from that company and mold in a
variety of colors on these pages. The middle one is bisque, i.e. biscuit fired, ready for paint and
glaze. There’s a version in black and white with its sugar mate on the sugars and creamers page. I
believe these come from one of those ‘do it yourself’ pottery craft stores. The one on the right is
marked “Studio Nova, <a href="http://www.studionove.com/">www.studionova.com</a>, KT513 Farm Cow,
Fine Porcelain, China”.</p></blockquote>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="modernvariation/263.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/263r.JPG" width="200" height="138" alt="Blanc de Chine cow creamer"></a></td>
<td>
<p>Many creamers come from China these days – a number of years ago they took over from Japan as the
principle maker of mass produced and relatively inexpensive ceramics. However the Chinese are also
capable of producing beautiful high quality pieces, and did so particularly in the days of the
emperors. Here is one example, said to be 19c Qing dynasty. It has a broken horn and is missing its
lid, but is nonetheless a beautifully crafted piece of Blanc de Chine – which (per Wikipedia’s
description) is “the traditional European term for a type of white <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_porcelain"
title="Chinese porcelain">Chinese porcelain</a>, made at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehua"
title="Dehua">Dehua</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujian" title="Fujian">Fujian</a>
province, otherwise known as Dehua porcelain or similar terms. It has been produced from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_Dynasty"
title="Ming Dynasty">Ming Dynasty</a> (1368–1644) to the present day. Large quantities arrived in
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a> as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Export_Porcelain"
title="Chinese Export Porcelain">Chinese Export Porcelain</a> in the early 18th century and it was
copied at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meissen" title="Meissen">Meissen</a> and elsewhere.
It was also exported to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> in large
quantities.”</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> <div align="center"><br>
<a href="modernvariation/718.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/718r.jpg" width="210"
height="145" alt="Porcelaine du Berry white cow creamer" ></a>
<a href="modernvariation/717.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/717r.jpg" width="188"
height="145" hspace="5" alt="German cream lustre porcelain cow creamer"></a></div><blockquote>
<p>Two more from different countries – the French ‘lait’ cow with the very awkwardly stretched out
front leg is marked for Porcelaine du Berry…obviously the ‘porcelaine’ slumped a bit in the kiln.
The cream luster cow with gold on the tail and horns is also porcelain, and I believe early 20c
German. </p></blockquote>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="modernvariation/758.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/758r.JPG" width="200" height="150" alt="Very large white French cow creamer"></a></td>
<td>
<p>Another French cow, this one nicely modeled with a very large tail loop, It’s one
of the largest of my many white cows creamers, ~ 10 ¼” long.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="modernvariation/822.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/822r.JPG" width="200" height="150" alt="White cow creamer from UK"></a></td>
<td>
<p>This unmarked one with wide legs and large jowls came to me from the UK – seems
there’s always another plain white cow creamer from a different mold.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="modernvariation/266.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/266r.JPG" width="200"
height="231" alt="Balvi white cow jug from Barcelona"></a>
<a href="modernvariation/742r.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/742r.JPG" width="200"
height="137" hspace="5" alt="Country Cupboard UK white cow creamer"></a>
<a href="modernvariation/m64dup.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/m64dupr.JPG"
width="200" height="222" alt="Standing white cow creamer missing some cold paint"></a>
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>The little square creamer on the box was made in Barcelona, Spain – but I bought it from a company
in England that mailed it from Germany. So I guess you could say it’s a European mongrel. Balvi is a large European design house that since 1963 has produced all kinds of housewares and gift items. They made a very interesting small cow. The little striding
striding cow came from The Country Cupboard in Fairford, Gloucestershire England. They were founded in 1997 by Mike ans Alison Godsal and purvey a range of china, glass and tableware, as well as offrering restoration services. The little
standing up forlorn one with the cold paint black eyes and gold bell is of unknown provenance, but from the
nature of the paint is likely Japanese and has some age to it.</p></blockquote>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="center">
<a href="moremv/845.jpg"><img src="moremv/845r.jpg" width="152" height="150" alt="bisque cow creamer with flowers ion horns"></a></div>
</td>
<td><p>This well formed bisqee cow is wearing three little blue flowers on her horns with a fourth just behing them. No marks, tiny teats.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> <div align="center"> <br>
<a href="modernvariation/sg233dup.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/sg233dupr.jpg"
width="200" height="152" alt="SOFAL Portugal white cow caricature creamer with loop handle" ></a>
<a href="modernvariation/sg276.jpg"><img src="modernvariation/sg276r.jpg"
width="200" height="152" hspace="5" alt="Laura SAshley UZ white cow caricature cow creamer"></a>
<p>Here are a couple international white cow creamers with interesting stories. The little roundish
hornless lady with the tall thin handle is marked for SOFAL, Sociedade do Faiancas SA, Portugal. It also
has a logo of wine glasses which might indeed be what this cow is intended to dispense, given the
Portuguese proclivity for imbibing good wine. They’re located in Alcobaca…and playing around on the
web, I found that in 1999 they were funded by the EU’s Fifth Framework Programme for an
exploratory research and development award “to develop a polymer coating and decoration system for
high quality ceramics. This will eliminate the need for multiple, high temperature firings and will
enhance the variety and quality of decorative effects dramatically.” Heavens knows whether my cow
received such a coating – but I do like the very unique design. The kneeling cow with the big smile
came to me from the UK and is stamped for Laura Ashley. Corporately, Laura is a fashion and home
furnishings company owned by Computershare Investor Services plc in Bristol. Their UK web site
(there is also a North American one) has a page that tells all about their history, which begins
“Laura and Bernard Ashley started printing fabric on their kitchen table in 1953, following a
Women’s Institute Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert museum on traditional handicrafts…” and it
goes on at length from there. So yes, Virginia, there indeed was a Laura Ashley, sort of the Martha
Stewart of her day, though over time like with so many other successful ventures, there have been a
number of corporate shifts.</p>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> <div align="center"><br>
<a href="moremv/841a.jpg"><img src="moremv/841ar.jpg" width="200" height="150" alt="Whitye cow creamer by Transpac"></a>
<a href="moremv/841b.jpg"><img src="moremv/841br.jpg" width="100" height="150" hspace="5" alt="Front view Transpac cow creamer"></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p>This stubby white cow creamer with splatter-holed spots (looks like someone hit it with bird shot) is from Transpac of Vacaville, CA, whose motto seems to be "Every day is a holiday". Their website proudly states"Transpac is an industry leader in gift, seasonal, and home and garden decor products. With more than 15,000 customers worldwide, Transpac designs and distributes consumer products throughout the independent retailer channel and national retail chains. We maintain showrooms in Atlanta, Dallas and Las Vegas as well as agency showrooms in Pennsylvania and Denver.". They seem to have some of their things - at least this cow - made in China. Interesting and unusual design.</p></blockquote>
</td>
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<tr>
<td>
<div align="center"><a href="modernvariation/Sg282.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/Sg282r.JPG" width="160"
height="200" alt="Weird white caricature cow creamer from UK"></a></div>
</td>
<td>
<p>This is one of the weirder caricatures I’ve seen. It has a couple raised places near the bottom, so
perhaps there’s a colored version around somewhere. The UK seller couldn’t tell me who made it,
but she did recount that it came from the estate of Merlewood House in Torquay where it was a kitchen
item in the part of the house that was used as a B&B. So, presumably it has been seen and used by
quite a few folks.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="modernvariation/coos.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/coosr.jpg" width="200" height="128" alt="Two German porcelain white cow creamers with Scottish sayings"></a></td>
<td>
<p>These two well formed porcelain cows migrated to Scotland from Germany. The one in back, with the
very faded wording “Straucht frae the coo”, is from the same mold as the two brown creamers with lids
further down this page.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><a href="modernvariation/9mv.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/9mvr.jpg" width="200" height="72" alt="Four white cow creamers with flowers"></a></p>
<p><a href="modernvariation/10mv.jpg"><img src="modernvariation/10mvr.jpg" width="200" height="80" alt="Four white cow creamers with flowers"></a></p>
</td>
<td><p><br>
It’s also quite popular to embellish the ‘standard’ white kitchen creamer with flowers or other
decorations. Like the plain white ones, these come from a number of kitchen and cooking equipment
purveyors, e.g. the one on the far left with the little pink flowers is from Pillivuyt of France, and
the one with the orange poppy is from “Williams Sonoma Grand Cuisine”, also of France. In the other
photo, the heavy legged creamer with large blue flowers and the black tail tip is from STA in
Cuernavaca, Mexico; a couple sets from the same mold and maker are discussed in the ‘creamer and
sugars’ theme. The one with butterflies and the raised lip on the back opening is from Limoges,
France, while the other two are both from BIA Cordon Bleu, a wholesale company in California that was
established in 1952. These two seem to be from the same mold, but are marked slightly
differently – the one in the middle says BIA Cordon Bleu International, Custom Made in China, while
the one on the far right is marked for BIA Cordon Bleu Porcelaine & Chine, The Freida
Collection, and Hand Decorated in the US. Apparently different retail outlets for the same wholesale
product. BIA has made umpteen white cow creamers with decorations, and it's simply not of any interest to me to try for a full sweep.</p>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<div align="center"><br>
<a href="modernvariation/727.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/727r.JPG" width="200" height="143" alt="French white cow creamer with bird"></a>
<a href="modernvariation/745.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/745r.JPG" width="200"
height="143" hspace="5" alt="C.Pabst German cow creamer with buterflies"></a>
<a href="modernvariation/nordstroms.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/nordstromsr.JPG"
width="204" height="143" alt="Two Nordstrom's white cow creamers with flowers"></a></div>
<p><div align="center">
<a href="moremv/868w.jpg"><img src="moremv/868wr.jpg" width="200" height="143" hspace="5" alt="dogwood"</a>
<a href="moremv/869w.jpg"><img src="moremv/869wr.jpg" width="215" height="143" alt="KPM cow painted by Anna Smith"></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p>More white cows with flower decorations – the one on top left with the bird is French, a gift from friends; the
one with butterflies and the brilliant floral display on legs and haunch is German - © C. Pabst of
Paperproducts Design GmbH, Am Hambuch, Meckenheim (Per their web site "the leading supplier of unique German-printed paper
tableware and beautiful coordinating accessories"); and the two on the right with flower-like patterns
all over are from Nordstrom’s department store – they sell cow creamers from this mold in a variety of patterns – and
very likely made in China.The one below on the left is entitled "Dog Wood by Heygill"; it's porcelain and made in Japan.
I find its decorations particularly lovely. To its right is a nice porcelain creamer marked for "KPM"
under a crown, and signed and dated by by the decorator, "Anna Smith'84:. From realorrepro.com we learn that
"The letters KPM can trace their ancestry back to 1763 when they were first used by the Konigliche Porzellan Manufacktur
(Royal Porcelain Manufactory) in Meissen. By 1825, the same letters were beginning to be used by the Royal Porcelain Manufactory
in Berlin. There have been fakes and look-alike marks almost since the start of original production...The letters KPM probably
appear in more marks used after 1925 than in marks before 1925. By the 1950s, KPM was used to imply a sense of quality, prestige
and age rather than any specific company. Many of the new KPM marks ... also include place names such as Bavaria
and Germany which do not appear in early marks. Since the original mark was never registered, it is legal today for reproduction
wholesalers to continue using the letters KPM on new pieces imported from China, Japan and Indonesia." Is this cow really KPM?
Beats me but it's nice and well,painted, also fairly new so I don't have to worry about getting stuck with an old fake.</p>
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<td><div align="center">
<a href="moremv/860w.jpg"><img src="moremv/860wr.jpg" width="194' height="150" alt="carola Pabst cow with misic"></a></div></td>
<td><p>This white cow from the German company Paperproducts Design GMBH is displaying 'Examoles of Different Measures".
If your eyes are better than mine and you have talent that I lack you might even be able to play them. It came in a clear
plastic box wiuth a sticker on top that assicns the copywrite to Carola Pabst. On the Bei Mir zu Haus web site she tells us "...
I was born in Stade in 1961. Today I live as a freelance illustrator with Alfie and Minou, a Savannah and Toyger cat, in beautiful
Neckergemünd near Heidelberg. Through my studies in jewelry design at the University of Applied Sciences for Design in Schwäbisch Gemünd,
I was able to give my drawing ambitions a form that over time led to my career as a freelance illustrator. My curiosity arouses
in me again and again the need to go new ways, to experiment and to dare to do new things."</a</td>
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<td><a href="modernvariation/beswick.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/beswickr.JPG" width="200" height="175" alt="Beswick's satirical Daisy cow creamer"></a></td>
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<p>This happy cow with dainty yellow flowers – actually a satire of a creamer because it has no mouth
hole – comes from the firm of John Beswick and family. She (Dausy) and her relatives with flowers of
different colors are on the Favorite Brands page, but this one came along later and I thought it
deserved a place here as well. The Beswick firm was established in 1892 and was noted for high
quality figurines, over the years including dogs, cats, farm and wild animals, and later Beatrix
Potter and then Disney characters. In 1969 Beswick was sold to Royal Doulton which continued to
produce Beswick products until 2002, but with their own backstamp starting in 1989. In 2004 the
Beswick name and design rights were sold off to Dartington Crystal, which continues to produce some
figurines as well as vases under the Beswick name. This cow, ‘Daisy the Cow Creamer’, model 2792, was
made under head designer Graham Tongue during the Doulton era. It was produced from 1983 to 1989, and
thus bears the Beswick name. The Beswick 2014 Price Guide by Harvey May gives its value as $85-140.
Why ‘Daisy’ when the little flowers look more like roses is beyond me – but then this was part of the
‘Farmyard Humor’ collection so perhaps that, as well as the lack of a mouth hole, was intended to be
part of the humor.</p>
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<td><a href="modernvariation/659_2.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/659_2r.jpg" width="200" height="139" alt="Gracie China white cow creamer with flower and butterfly"></a></td>
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<p>Here’s another take on the flowered white creamer – from a different mold and with the further
embellishment of gold horns. It’s from Gracie China by Coastline Imports, and was made (surprise!)
in China. I can’t fine anything about Gracie China on the web, but Coastline Imports, headquartered
in City of Industry, CA, advertises itself as “a leading wholesale distributor of quality imported
tableware including fine bone china, fine porcelain and ceramic kitchenware. Its importing operations
provide a steady supply of well recognized traditional and contemporary tableware offered at
competitive prices directly to retail stores.”</p>
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<td><a href="modernvariation/611.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/611r.jpg" width="200" height="141" alt="Large plain heavy and decorated French white cow creamers"></a></td>
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<p>Here is an unusual, very large, thick, heavy plain white creamer – unmarked. Its companion, another
‘embellished’ version of the standard white creamer, has a bright red flower on the side you can’t
see, and is marked “Made in France” in green, and “FLORENCE – Made
in France” in gold…guess the maker wanted to make sure you knew it was made in France…just in case
you couldn’t figure out what “Lait” was.</p>
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<td><div align="center">
<a href="moremv/538dup.jpg"><img src="moremv/538dupr.jpg" width="189" height="150" alt="StaMa Cuernavaca"></a></div></td>
<td><p>White cows with flowers also come from Mexico. In this case, "Sta MA" (which I imagine is an abbreviation of Santa Maria") of Cuernavava. A google search tells us that "Cuernavaca is the lush capital of Mexico’s Morelos state, cradled by the Tepozteco Mountains south of Mexico City. The colonial city center features the 16th-century Palace of Cortés, former home of Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés and now a history museum with murals by Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Just southwest is Cuernavaca Cathedral, in a 1500s walled monastery complex with a mural depicting Mexico’s first saint." Wikipedia adds that it's only a 90 minute drive south of Mexico City and thus provides a welcome respite from the huge city. I also have two creamer and sugar sets by this pottery, shown on that page.</p></td>
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<td><a href="modernvariation/709.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/709r.jpg" width="200" height="136" alt="Eve Taylor white cow creamer with green flowers"></a></td>
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<p>This green and white creamer is an interpretation by Eve Taylor, or so it says on its side. I have
been unable to locate any information about her.</p>
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<td><div align="center">
<a href="moremv/856w.jpg"><img src="moremv/856wr.jpg" width="193" height="150" alt="Paula Deen cow"></a></div>
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<td><p> It's not hard to locate information on the lady for which this large and brightly flowered cow is stamped: "Paula Deen, Store Collection" (made in China), known for her "Southern" cooking. Wikipedia tells us "Paula Ann Hiers Deen (born January 19, 1947) is an American TV personality and cooking show host. Deen resides in Savannah, Georgia, where she owns and operates The Lady & Sons restaurant and Paula Deen's Creek House with her sons, Jamie and Bobby Deen. She has published fifteen cookbooks. Though married since 2004 to Michael Groover, she uses the last name Deen, from her first marriage." She has received criticism over time for racial slurs and excessive use of sugar although she claims to be a "natural food: advocate."</p></td>
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<td><div align="center"><a href="moremv/688new.jpg"><img src="moremv/688newr.jpg" width="210" height="150" alt="white with black specks filled below strange cow creamer from UK" ></a></div></td>
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<p>This is a rather fascinating older creamer, that I acquired after being asked about
it by someone who had looked for assistance on this web page. The basic shape is fairly normal,
but it’s made of a very dense ceramic with a black thin base layer, and is filled both below and in
the circle usually made by the tail. I’m afraid I was able to offer the UK seller no real
assistance, other than rescuing it from a boot sale.</p>
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<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="moremv/846a.jpg"><img src="moremv/846ar.jpg" width="145" height="150" alt="Large mouthed German cow creamer, FRONT"></a>
<a href="moremv/846b.jpg"><img src="moremv/846br.jpg" width="191" height="150" hspace="5" alt="Large mouthed German cow creamer, SIDE"></a>
<a href="moremv/846c.jpg"><img src="moremv/846cr.jpg" width="145" height="150" alt="2 Large mouthed German cow creamerS"></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p> This interesting 'Made in Germany' cow has a quite unusual large nouth. It had sort of a familiar look to its face, so I set it next to one that's shown both on the Places page and in the area of German cows on Modern Variations page 3, where I note that it could win an ugle prize. I can't be sure they were both from the same pottery, but then I would assume that not toomany folks would form a cow's mouth like this.</p>
</blockquote>
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<td height="180"><a href="modernvariation/704.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/704r.jpg" width="200" height="144" alt="Farm Fresh cow creamer by Grassland Roads"></a></td>
<td>
<p>This cute ‘farm fresh’ creamer comes from Grassland Roads (“Gifts that Inspire”), a specialty gift
division started in 1999 by Amscan, Inc, which was founded in 1947 and per its web site “is the
largest designer, manufacturer, and distributor of decorated party goods and party accessories in the
world”. </p>
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<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="moremv/sg142.jpg"><img src="moremv/sg142r.jpg" width="203" height="150" alt="white cow creamers with raised ceramic flowers"></a>
<a href="moremv/461.jpg"><img src="moremv/461r.jpg" width="195" height="150" hspace="5" alt="small bisque cow with raised flowers"></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p>Some white creamers come adorned with delicate raised flowers. The kneeling cow with the handle
is from N. Sorrento by Arnart. The wonderful gotheborg web site’s page on Japanese marks notes that
“Arnart Imports Inc. [which was started in 1952] is still in operation and is currently located in
230 Fifth Avenue, New York. The company specializes in Porcelain gifts and decorative accessories. First registrated trade mark is the Crown and A's mark registered April 30, 1953. A mark looking like
a bee hive (which adorns this creamer), was first used the last of December 1957. Both were cancelled
in 2001”. The small matte-white cow with the gold bell is simply stamped “L-434” and has a blue and
white oval sticker for Made in Japan.</p></blockquote>
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<td><a href="modernvariation/sg254.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/sg254r.jpg" width="200" height="143" alt="Kneeling white Italian cow creamer with handle and flowers"></a></td>
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<p>The flowers on this kneeling cow, which appears to be closely related to the Arnart one above, aren’t raised, but the creamer is nicely detailed. It has “Italy”
written on the bottom. </p>
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<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="modernvariation/sg163239.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/sg163239r.jpg"
width="200" height="155" alt="Two sitting up Australian white cow creamers"></a>
<a href="modernvariation/sg239sg17a.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/sg239sg17ar.jpg"
width="200" height="155" hspace="5" alt="Australian and Dansk white sitting up cow creamers"></a>
<a href="modernvariation/sg214c17a194.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/sg214c17a194r.jpg"
width="200" height="128" alt="Three similar small white sitting cow cramers from Dansk, Spain and UK"></a>
</div>
<p>Little white sitting up cow creamers are very popular, and not just in the US. The one with little
cows around the bottom Says “Grevilla Wines, Bega” on its chest, and it marked for Damsel Products of
Australia on the bottom. Leave it to the Aussies to pour wine from a cow (or a boot, or …). Its
neighbor bears a sticker from Maxwell & Williams Designer Homewares, an Australian owned company
that started in 1995. In the middle picture, this same creamer is sitting next to a smaller cousin, in
this case one made by Dansk. In the third shot, the Dansk creamer is surrounded by one from Spain on
its right (seen also in the Pitchers section with its larger partners), and one from the UK on its
left. These little guys, made by a number of manufacturers, are widely sold in coffee and homewares
shops, in some cases by the boxful just in case you might like to set one out for each of your
guests.</p>
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<td><a href="modernvariation/12mv.jpg"><img src="modernvariation/12mvr.jpg" width="200" height="186" alt="Michael C Fina white cow creamer with box"></a></td>
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<p><br>
Finally for the ‘white’ section, here’s a new little one with gold trimming that says on its belly,
“Moo-LA-LA, Michael C. Fina”. This company started by selling silverware in Manhattan in 1935, and is
still owned and operated by the Fina family. Today it also sells jewelry, dinnerware, houseware, and
giftware. They have a nice web page.</p>
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<td colspan="2"> <div align="center"><br>
<a href="moremv/group1a.jpg"><img src="moremv/group1ar.jpg" width="396" height="180" alt="Herd of black and white cow creamers"></a>
<a href="moremv/group2a.jpg"><img src="moremv/group2ar.jpg" width="396" height="180" alt="Herd of black and white cow creamers"></a>
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>Black and white is, if anything, even more popular than pure white; and many of these creamers also
have a bit of pink or some additional accoutrements, ranging here from flowers and bells, to a
rooster and a chef’s hat (that one also has a big chef’s hat sugar bowl, that I didn’t bother to picture). I show some of them in more detail below, but wanted to start this area with herd shots.</p></blockquote>
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<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
Here are these same creamers in a bit more detail.</p></div>
<div align="center">
<a href="moremv/sgesg8sg21sg25sg4.JPG"><img src="moremv/sgesg8sg21sg25sg4r.jpg" width=275" height="145"></a>
<a href="moremv/41663dup257151.jpg"><img src="moremv/41663dup257151r.jpg" width="248" height="145" hspace="2"><</a>
<a href="moremv/216252.jpg"><img src="moremv/216252r.jpg" width="220" height="145"></a>
<a href="moremv/483849x47.JPG"><img src="moremv/483849x47r.jpg"width="280" height="145" hspace="2"></a>
<a href="moremv/749.jpg"><img src="moremv/749r.jpg" width="179" height="145"></a>
<a href="moremv/33220152.jpg"><img src="moremv/33220152r.jpg" width="222" height="145" hspace="2"></a>
<a href="moremv/39424025.JPG"><img src="moremv/39424025r.jpg" width="266" height="145"></a>
<a href="moremv/26460245285.jpg"><img src="moremv/26460245285r.jpg" width="276" height="145"></a>
<a href="moremv/sg22qsg15sg14.JPG"><img src="moremv/sg22qsg15sg14r.jpg" width="203" height="145" hspace="5"></a>
</p></div>
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<td><a href="modernvariation/208s.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/208sr.jpg" width="200" height="122" alt="Pier 1 and Wiklliams Sonoma black and white cow creamers"></a></td>
<td>
<p>There are of course ‘transition’ colored creamers, i.e. available as either white or black and
white,
generally of the modern inexpensive sort that are widely available in kitchen stores. Here are three
examples, all from essentially the same mold. The black and while ones (also available as plain
white) are marked “Porcelain exclusively for Pier 1 Imports, China”, and cost $5. The white one is
stamped “Williams-Sonoma Marketplace” and sold (a year earlier) for $6.99. The puzzles here are how
Pier 1 can claim exclusivity for something being purveyed by one of its competitors, and why
Williams-
Sonoma thinks their name is worth $1.99 more than Pier 1’s for the same item…admittedly, only a
collector like me would be suckered into buying both. These three are also pictured and discussed near the start of the 'white' area. </p>
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<td><a href="modernvariation/725.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/725r.JPG" width="200" height="190" alt="Small RPI white with black spots cow creamer in plastic wrap"></a></td>
<td>
<p>This little black and white guy is embellished with a deep purple udder. Pretty obvious where she
came from – on the back of the package there is a short description of porcelain (‘a hard,
fine-grained nonporous white ceramic material that is extremely durable’) and the logo for the
manufacturer, RPI or Resourceful Products, Inc, of Belmor NJ…although not surprisingly, it was Made
in China. Fair enough I guess, since that’s where porcelain was first developed.</p>
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<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="moremv/sg172sg181.jpg"><img src="moremv/sg172sg181r.jpg" width="190" height="150" alt="similar sitting cows"></a>
<a href="moremv/405355.jpg"><img src="moremv/405355r.jpg" width="202" height="150" hspace="5" alt="2 squarish similar cows"></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p> Here are two ‘pairs’ that look similar, and may in fact be from similar molds, but at least are from
different manufacturers. The sitting-up cow on thre right has a blurry stamp that says something like ‘Obrarte’,
and an impressed number 630; its match with stubbier horns is unmarked. Similarly, the squarish one with
brown shading is clearly impressed for ©GIFTCO, while its beady-eyed companion has nothing to say for itself.</blockquote>
</p>
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<a href="moremv/k84su65om42.jpg"><img src="moremv/k84su65om42r.jpg" width="215" height="150" alt="set of e head stiking our"></a>
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<p><br>
These three unmarked holsteins featuring the heads with no other body oarts came together – they’re
a cup, a sugar (head hiding behing the knob on the lid), and – from the fact that there is a strainer inside – apparently a small teapot
instead of a creamer (unless the strainer is intended to restrain flies, curds, or some such). </p>
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<td><div align="center">
<a href="moremv/m79om50.jpg"><img src="moremv/m79om50r.jpg" width="182" height="150" alt="Debenham & swiss"></a></div></td>
<td><p>The
cow with the long snout is named “Funky Dabarpact’; he was ‘designed exclusively for
Debenhams’, the UK Department store, and was made in Thailand. The little pitcher in front, with the
tiny cow hanging on to the rim and the Swiss flag and label, is marked “Creation melpa Bulle”. We
bought it in Geneva.</p></td>
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<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="moremv/m32467m45.jpg"><img src="moremv/m32467m45r.jpg" width="250" height="150" alt="3 with big noses"></a>
<a href="moremv/sg27529sg27a.jpg"><img src= "moremv/sg27529sg27ar.jpg" width="226" height="150" hspace="5" alt="3 roundish"></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p> In the left picture are three variations on the ‘bulbous-nosed round cow’ theme. The one on the left is unmarked, but
“Dookie” in the middle has an impressed ©SM. Dookie is very popular with kids in Europe, and even
has his own web site (in French). The cow on the right is copyrighted for TIC. In the righthand shot, the cow on the left is signed by LL Bell, 2015, and is distinguished by having an extra hole on top of its head, The roundish one in the middle came as a father's day present to me in 2004 from my wife - she got it in Reykjavik, Iceland (and we have another one that we bought in Helsinki). Although not marked, I have seen a similar one on eBay marked for Kammer, Thuringia German. The one on the right is unmarked, but came to me from Canada.</p></blockquote>
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<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="modernvariation/19mv.jpg"><img src="modernvariation/19mvr.jpg" width="230" height="96" alt="Four black & white cow creamers"></a>
<a href="modernvariation/20mv.jpg"><img src="modernvariation/20mvr.jpg" width="200" height="96" hspace="4" alt="Four black & white cow creamers"></a>
<a href="modernvariation/21mv.jpg"><img src="modernvariation/21mvr.jpg" width="200" height="96" alt="Three black and white cow creamers"></a>
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>Yet more black and white cow creamers, including some with bases, and one toward the middle that’s lost most of
its cold paint and now sort of looks white but for the eyes.</p></blockquote>
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<td><a href="modernvariation/bnws.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/bnwsr.jpg" width="200" height="121" alt="Three different black & white cow creamers"></a></td>
<td>
<p>Three quite different black and white creamers – the only one with any marks is the small sitting-up
one in the middle. It is stamped for “Frutuoso, Made in Portugal”. I have an identical one marked
for “Reducta, London”, as well as a couple very similar plain white ones, so this must be from a very
common mold.</p>
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<td><a href="modernvariation/22mv.jpg"><img src="modernvariation/22mvr.jpg" width="200" height="105" alt="Two black & white cow creamers"></a></td>
<td>
<p><br>
The creamer with the trapezoidal base was made in Taiwan but has no manufacturer’s name. The one
with the blue bow and calf is “A Teleflora Gift”, ©Teleflora. I don’t know anything about that
company, but a quick eBay search shows that >250 items of theirs are up for auction; and I did
locate a Taiwanese ceramic manufacturer and exporter, Thai Pattana Ceramics, that shows Teleflora as
one of the companies they serve.</p>
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<td><a href="modernvariation/sg265.JPG"><img src="modernvariation/sg265r.jpg" width="200" height="166" alt="Black & White cow creamer with watering can sprinkler for aspout"></a></td>
<td>
<p>I debated about whether to put this unmarked bluebird-bearing black and white cow here or in the
watering can page, but she’s only about 4” tall and wouldn’t be very functional unless you wanted to
water only one small plant at a time. So I guess someone was just being whimsical – it’s my only
‘cow cream sprinkler’. </p>
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<td height="200"><a href="modernvariation/23mv.jpg"><img src="modernvariation/23mvr.jpg" width="200"
height="147" alt="Two 'Desert Doodads' cow creamers"></a></td>
<td>