GUEST: When I would come home from college when I was in my 20s, I noticed this new addition to the living room, and I thought it was pretty. But I was really busy and I didn't pay a lot of attention to it. But then as my mother got older, one day I found it in my bedroom. And I realized that she wanted me to have it. And upon her passing, it came to me. And I've had it ever since. We never talked about it. I just admired it and said, "Oh, it's a pretty piece."
APPRAISER: Okay, you know it's Moorcroft.
GUEST: Yes, I looked on the bottom. And what I've noticed, it's just such a pretty color. That it's...
APPRAISER: It's, it's a very unusual color. It's a cornflower design, which is one that you see in quite a bit Moorcroft. But the glaze is called powder blue. And it's a blue on blue. It's a really beautiful glaze. It has the speckling in it. That's very typical of the powder blue glaze. Dates from around 1935. And you see the raised areas where the flowers are?
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: That's done with tube lining. It's like squeezing toothpaste out of a tube, but a thin line. And they would tube line the design on here, and then women would come in and put the colors on.
GUEST: Wow.
APPRAISER: So it's a two-step process. Then the glaze would be put on it, and it would be fired. And it's really a beautiful shape, beautiful form, and nice glaze there.
GUEST: Well, thank you. I've-- it's in a prized place in my home, and I've always enjoyed it. And I have lots of cats and dogs running around. So I do have it in a secure place.
APPRAISER: Have you thought about value?
GUEST: Well, yes, actually, I have. And... I don't know. My mother never said a thing about value. We didn't talk about stuff like that. But I would say $300, maybe?
APPRAISER: Well, let's bump that up a little bit. In today's market, it's probably, at auction, would bring somewhere between $1,200 and $1,700.
GUEST: Wow!
APPRAISER: So, yeah, wow.
GUEST: (exhales)
APPRAISER: It's a beautiful piece. It's big, has a lot going for it, and in pristine condition, so...
GUEST: Thank you so much. I'm, I'm stunned.
APPRAISER: Well, good.
GUEST: I'm going to put it in an even safer place.
APPRAISER: Yeah, keep the cats and dogs away, and...
GUEST: I'll do my best.
APPRAISER: It's nice, it's sweet.
