GUEST: I'm from New York City.

I came down on the bus.

APPRAISER: Just to come to ANTIQUES ROADSHOW?

GUEST: Just to come to ANTIQUES ROADSHOW.

It wasn't easy, but I got here.

APPRAISER: I love what you brought us, and how'd you come about it?

GUEST: I got it as a gift.

One of my neighbors that I befriended, I assisted him going to the store, cooking dinner.

That's how I got it.

APPRAISER: When we see something this quality, this kind of combination of colors, this scale, this type of glaze, it looks like the work of two brothers who were potters in a place called Nancy in France called Mougins.

And we'll turn it over.

And sure enough, there it says, "Mougins, Nancy."

Nancy is the town that the Mougins brothers worked in.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: And they were active from about 1900.

At the time they started, they were making what we call Art Nouveau pottery.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: Very colorful organic designs.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: But by the time the '20s roll around and into the '30s, their style evolves with modern taste...

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: ...into what we call Art Deco design.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: Now, this piece is very Art Deco.

I would date it to the later 1920s...

GUEST: Oh, wow.

APPRAISER: ...and into perhaps.

around 1930, '31, '32.

GUEST: Wow.

APPRAISER: These bold green leaves are not leaves you'd find in Nancy, which is in the Lorraine region of France.

But this was a time in French history when the French really discovered their, kind of, colonial world.

GUEST: Mm-hmm APPRAISER: There was a big exhibition in Paris in 1931...

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: ...called the Exposition Coloniale.

They brought exotic creatures, animals from Africa, and they brought designs of palm trees and exotic flora into the French taste.

GUEST: Oh, okay.

APPRAISER: So we see a lot of that kind of thing GUEST: Oh, wow.

APPRAISER: ...around the late '20s, into the early '30s.

It's made of pottery, not thrown on a wheel.

It would have been cast, slip cast.

And then it's glazed in a rich coloration.

There's a kind of mottled brown here, matte-ish brown here, slightly metallic, and this slightly metallic green.

It's very, very effective.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: These bright blue fruits, just a great example of the Mougins brothers' potting skills.

GUEST: Mougins brothers.

APPRAISER: You've got something special.

GUEST: Oh, I thought so.

(chuckles) APPRAISER: Yeah.

If we put it in an auction, it's going to bring somewhere between, one of my colleagues said between $1,000 and $2,000.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: I'm going to say a good estimate, at auction...

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: ...would be between $1,200 and $1,600.

So I think that's-- GUEST: (chuckling): Oh wow.

That's good.

That's-- That's good for a gift, eh?

APPRAISER: That's a nice gift you got right there.

GUEST: That's right.

APPRAISER: Now it's worth that, largely because it's perfect.