Harbor Farm Store

Home and personal furnishings: pottery, glass, wooden toys, jewelry, silk flowers, doorstops, note cards, original water colors, scratch boards of birds and animals, prints, photographs, kitchen gadgets and Nantucket Knotworks. View the Harbor Farm Catalog for even more gift ideas.

Pottery

We have many lines of pottery, some with full ranges of item, others with odd pieces. You can purchase a complete dinner set or buy a lovely individual pot for yourself or someone else.

Takashi Ichihara creates beautiful pottery using wood ash. The type of wood that is used to make the ash determines the color of the glaze.

Charlie Grosjean has been a Maine potter for twenty-four years. Charlie’s pottery is known for its warm representation of themes in nature, which stem from his interest in biology and the environment.

Takashi Ichihara creates beautiful pottery using wood ash. The type of wood that is used to make the ash determines the color of the glaze.

Rinny Ryan creates a wonderful line of pottery that has the durability of stoneware because that’s what it is. It has the wonderful down-to-earth look of wood fired pottery.

We are delighted to offer work by Tanya Taylor, whose blue and green stoneware is as wonderfully functional as its character is strong.

We offer high quality spongeware in a fine dark color. Strong cobalt spongeware is hard to come by. It is often clunky or the sponging is thin with lots of white patches. This is hand sponged on premade white bisque bases by an expert on 17th, 18th, and 19th century potters. The cobalt sponging is strong and plentiful. The fact that the pottery is hand sponged gives it a certain interesting variation typical of so much hand work.

Full line of pieces are available for Reproduction Rockingham Ware and Red Ware. We are delighted to be able to offer full table services, including very large bowls of reproduction red ware and Rockingham ware.  Rockingham ware and Bennington ware originated at the same place.  The Marquis of Rockingham was  the patron of the man who originated that pottery in England.  Bennington ware is named after Bennington, Vermont because a member of the original English group settled and began making pottery there. Our pieces are designated Rockingham ware because the reproductions are made from designs of the original Rockingham ware.

Hand Made Reproduction Red Ware made of natural earthenware, by a specialist in early 19th century pottery, these pots may be wheel turned or drape or slump molded, according to the piece. Decoration may be by slip trailing, sgraffito in the North Devon tradition, or daubing.

A selection of mocha ware on yellow ware base. Mocha ware has a chemical introduced to the glaze on the clay while it is still wet. The chemical finds its way into shapes resembling plant growth. This mocha ware has a yellow base and the design is in black.

Wooden Things

Our wooden hooks are a specialty. They look about like the bent wood handle of a walking stick. We have them all over our house – two dozen of them in our mud room, where they take coats and hat and just about anything else before it hits a chair or somewhere else where it doesn’t belong. We have them in Santa’s workshop in the basement where they hold ribbons. They also hold fishing rods, bicycles, and tools in the garden tool room.

You’d think shepherds’ crooks a mite esoteric but one is a great gift for the man who has everything, whether he hikes or not. If he doesn’t want a crook, he can have a nice long walking stick.

We have perfectly lovely rubbed teak bowls. They come in various sizes and shapes. They are dark, with a most pleasing patina on them, and the hand carving shows as it does on old hand hewn boards. We like them so much we have them in our house and in our offices.

Beautiful Bird Carvings and Pecan Shell Castings. Reproductions of early decoys, the wooden ones are hand carved. And there are copies of a fine decoy collection cast in bonded pecan shell and hand painted. All are notable for their considerable grace.

Russian wooden toys from chickens on a board that pick up corn at the instigation of a swinging ball under the board, just as you probably had as a youngster, to critters that move in other ways at the urging of the swinging ball.

Wooden hay forks, an old country tradition in parts of this country and in the Tyrol, where they are often stained and polished and hung on the wall, perhaps across a doorway. Starting with a single piece of wood, it takes about 3 weeks to make one. The fork must be soaked in hot water twice , split, sanded, and put in a jig, then finish sanded.

Splendid reproduction Early American furniture. Our reproduction Early American furniture is the nicest we are aware of. Not spindly, not clunky, and not painted as if it were covered in dried mud. Some parts are pine, some maple, and some either ash or white oak, depending on the characteristics needed for the job. Where vertical pieces stick through horizontal pieces, the tops stand a little proud, just as they would if they were a hundred or two years old because woods dry at different rates.

Painted in milk paint, colors are black, dark green, barn red, mustard, and blue. Tops of tables are stained and polished, as are tops of hunt boards and step-back cupboards.

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