Help identifying a possible tiki cup

Hello!

This fully glazed brown ceramic cup(?) stands 3.5" tall by 2.5" wide and is signed "Frances Schmidt" and "WP" on the bottom. Various google searches of the name on the bottom turned up nothing.

I figured if anyone would know of this little mug, it would be someone here.

Any ideas?

[ Edited by Holofernes on 2023-07-19 18:59:55 ]

[ Edited by Holofernes on 2023-07-22 07:24:03 ]

OMG a Frances Schmidt?? 😮😮🤯

Is what you want to hear. Sorry, got nothing for you.

[ Edited by BlackWater on 2023-07-19 20:20:30 ]

That's "MISTER" (or Mrs?) Frances Schmidt to you!

[ Edited by Holofernes on 2023-07-20 08:06:05 ]

https://mytiki.life/tiki-mugs/hawaiian-village-tiki-mug

Thanks for the lead! That's definitely his head, wonder where his body went? ;)

I'm not a collector so I'm not familiar with this mug but in the 60s it was common to buy plaster mold for slipcasting pottery. A huge variety of molds were available including Tiki mugs. I suspect that Francis Schmidt was a hobbyist who had cast this mug, probably for his personal use. Duncan was a big name in ready to use molds but there were others.

Thanks! The name on the bottom is not a name attached to any Tiki manufacturers that I can find so it was probably more of a one off mold or small-batch kinda thing by Frances, and the pronounced under-glaze crackle/crazing present inside the mug speaks to me of the 50s or 60s time period.

I did find the Duncan mold stackers on this other site (https://mytiki.life/tiki-mugs/hobbyist-duncan-home-stackable-maori-tiki) and have a few of those too.

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