Rosemeade used an ink stamp for most of the pottery production, along with foil labels. This pottery is glazed with a clear finish and is a product of Cook Inlet Native Clay Ceramics, often signed by hand "Alaska Native Clay.". Shawnee produced "Corn King" dinnerware line from 1941 until about 1961, but the line changed over the years, as explained in this article from the Appalachian Antique Mall. Ineke Pottery is a Victoria, British Colombia, Canada, business that is sometimes found in the U.S. Ineke is often hand-turned with artisan decoration of applied flowers, in studio-pottery style. Sebring was purchased by Royal China in 1964. Hadley are names associated with Louisville Stoneware. McCoy is one of the most recognizable American pottery brands sought by collectors, and styles evolved greatly over the years. Off. For more information on Jack Carnes and Camark pottery, see The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture. Rocky Mountain Pottery Company was started by Leland Huston in 1953 in Denver, Colorado. Production includes brick, sewer pipe, architectural terra cotta, tile, garden ware, tableware, kitchenware, art ware, figurines, giftware, and ceramics for industrial use. Bauer Pottery Company opened in Lincoln Heights, just north of downtown. Click / tap images to view an image of the item.). It continued dinnerware and souvenir plate production until 1958. (signed). Larger Roselane items are marked in the mold. The former Gladding, McBean & Co.'s Franciscan tableware and tile factory in Los Angeles was bought by Wedgwood from the Interpace corporation in 1979. Figurines were elegant and fragile with lace similar to Dresden, Germany figurines, typical of the 1940s and 1950s. The pottery closed in 1961. Weil used some coralene or fine glass applications on his vases. Some of his work is marked S. Ballard, but paper labels identifying the pottery as "Ballard Hand Made" and "A Product of Vermont Craftsmanship" are usually his work. Old Ivory was a colored clay body first available in 1926, followed by Adobe (tan body) in 1931. The company was sold to Designer Accents in 1985 and closed in 1990. DCP (Dundas Clay Products) and CPC (Canadian Porcelain Company) are marks related to the eCanada operation. Calla Lily dinnerware was a San Jose Potteries product. Roseville Pottery's years of operation were from about 1890 until 1954, with the most desirable artware produced from about 1900 through the 1920s. According to Cajunc there are a few ways to figure out where your piece originated. Joanne Fulton Schaefer wrote a book on deLee Art in 1997, 144 pages of color photos in hardcover format entitled "Delee Art: The Pictorial Story of a California Artist and Her Company." Catalina Clay Products Catalina Pottery art ware vase. Please don't copy our images but use them for free to help with identification of your pottery. "H" in a circle was an early Hull mark, and "hull" without a capital "H" was a late mark. How to identify US pottery companies and origins by clay color. $100.00 1 bid 4 Antique Bauer Rosenthal & Co BRC Bavaria Purple Flower Porcelain Plates 7.75" . You can see some Winart pieces in the (affiliate link) Frankoma and Other Oklahoma Potteries (A Schiffer Book for Collectors) by Phyllis and Tom Bess. After a purchase by Interpace and one of the Wedgwood companies, a move to England ended U.S. production. Chohlidakis pottery distribution seems to be primarily in Texas and California. Desert Sands was located in Barstow, California, for a while, operated by Arthur's son, Ferrell and nephew, Terrell. Hyalyn produced useful accessories for the home, including ashtrays, plaques, vases and table service items. Some common marks include the studio where the piece was made, the potter who crafted the piece, and the signature of the artist who decorated it. John B. Taylor and M.A. Hyalyn Porcelain operated in Hickory, North Carolina, starting about 1947. He edited Ceramics Monthly for over 20 years and has written about and taught ceramics as well as maintained a studio in Ohio in recent years. Production continued in Calabasas until 1953. Welcome to The Marks Project, www.themarksproject.org, A Dictionary of American Ceramics, 1946-present. A Manual of Marks on Pottery and Porcela - Specialty Appraisals 1892 to 1905. He had been with Broadmoor Pottery a year (1935), and with Van Briggle before that. You can see more Sebring potteries at the Sebring Ohio Historical Society. The factory was sold in 1948 but operated under the Maddux of California name until about 1980. Some marks look like a circle, square, bird or animal shape, etc. Canuck Pottery is one of the better-known Canadian potteries. Freeman McFarlin burro figurines by Kay Finch. For more information, see Bill Hunt's website. Antiqueweek.com has a brief history on RumRill Pottery for the curious. The (affiliate link) Book of Buffalo Pottery by Violet and Seymour Altman, published in 1969, is the leading publication on the company. Sebring, Ohio was a center for dinnerware production. Coventry Ware was made in Barberton, Ohio, starting about 1932 by Carrie Daum. Note: Not all makers have a mark here, or a good one. Hall discontinued Autumn Leaf in 1976 and reissued a few items in 1978 and a few more at a later date. The Limoges Gout de Ville mark features two circles with a crown and the word "Limoges" in the center. B. [1] Poxon China was located at 2300 East 52nd Street. Ecanada art pottery operated in Hamilton, Canada, from 1926 until about 1952, making jasperware similar to Wedgwood. Pottery Marks Identification Made Easy Pottery Marks Identification Made Easy Pottery marks identification (a tricky task at the best of times) just got easier - with a little help from your friends! It made utilitarian ware and art pottery with heavy glazes similar to Grueby. Vernon Kilns operated in the old Poxon China building in Vernon, California starting about 1931. Goss Vermont Pottery used interesting speckled glazes on much of their wares. Charleton often used pink enamel roses and a foil label identifies Charleton decoration. Loy-Nel-Art was an early J. W. McCoy pottery line with a standard glaze of brown and hand-painted designs. Jugtown Pottery is one of the Seagrove, North Carolina, pottery companies operated by the Owens family. McCoy Pottery was sold to Designer Accents in 1985 and closed in 1990. Some artists signed the Cowan production, but the Cowan mark was an incised logo that resembles a circle with the cowan name. It is marked in the mold with an incised eCanada Art Pottery stamp. Abingdon shapes are often plain Art Deco or geometric style and the glazes are smooth and often tertiary colors unusual blues, greens and pinks. "RF Spaghetti" and "Cabinart" are Watt production. Solid glazes were named after island features, such as Catalina Blue , Descanso Green , Toyon . Jimmie Lee Stewart started deLee about 1936 creating animal and people figurines, wall pockets and a few cookie jars until about 1958. The business went bankrupt, maybe as early as 1924. Winfield continued business until about 1962. Ben Seibel, a famous 20th century designer of dinnerware, with designs for Iroquois, Steubenville, Roseville Raymor and Mikasa, designed some of the Universal lines. Franciscan Ware dinnerware was quality hand-painted table service, but Franciscan also made porcelain dinnerware service and miscellaneous decorator items. mark doesn't tell us which pottery company made these. Evans Ceramics of Healdsburg, California, has produced pottery since about 1960. GMB moved to Los Angeles about 1924 after acquiring Tropico Pottery in the early 1920s. Gilmer produced art ware until about 1965, but also produced sanitary or utilitarian ware for the plumbing trade. Bauer Pottery, Metlox Potteries, Pacific Clay Products, and Gladding, McBean & Co. All of the "Big Five" potteries operated production facilities in the Los Angeles Basin. Jane Fauntz baby and sitting boy figurines. c. 1878, glazed porcelain. Le Pere made animal figurines, small vases and pitchers, often with gold decoration. J. Cordey workers applied handmade pottery flowers and leaves, with pink roses one of the favorites. We have a public forum here on this site with over 2000 pages of pottery mark queries and answers. Wallace was famous for some of its western patterns, including "Westward Ho" with branding marks around the rim. "Shelledge" and "Federal" were popular thin porcelain shapes. Desert Sands Pottery, originally started by Arthur Evans, was in Boulder City, Nevada, producing swirl clay items from the 1940s until 1962. Notice the three flaws on this Metlox pitcher (right), indicative of firing pins. Wallace China of Los Angeles California. "Desert Ware" was a tan body vitreous porcelain, sometimes decorated with transfer patterns. Sometimes marked Bell of California, Bell Manufacturing Company was in Los Angeles in the 1950s, crafting figurines and artware for the American public. We often see this pottery referred to as the same, but Garden of the Gods is Colorado pottery, while Nemadji is made in Moose Lake, Minnesota. Pieces are occasionally marked ROMCO USA and sometimes have a paper label like the one shown. This mark causes confusion with collectors, as the immediate reaction is that this is Roseville Pottery, another company in the area that was much more famous. Roseville Art Pottery. Free shipping on many items | Browse your favorite brands | affordable prices. Letitia Landers published three volumes of (affiliate link) Camark Pottery: An identification and value reference in the 1990s, with catalog reprints in black and white. Peter Jackson maintains a website at Wakefield Studio. Walter Dworkin wrote the book (affiliate link) Price Guide to Holt-Howard Collectibles and Related Ceramicware of the 50s & 60s. Warwick used both hand-painted and decal decorations, and did some portraits on some of the wares. It produced Harkerware as well as dinnerware sets for Sears and Montgomery Wards. ExclusivelyEmma (178) $42.00 Vintage Matte Pink Hexagonal Double Square Design California Pottery Marked 8118 GreenSagedotcom (301) $24.80 the base possibly by Rose Fechheimer, circa 1905 converted from an oil lamp, Rookwood flame mark partly obscured by glaze, artist's cipher and numbers covered by glaze, bearing partial Rookwood paper label height 27 1/2in (69.8cm); diameter of shade 18 1/4in (46.3cm) Some of the marks identify the dinnerware as ironstone. Gladding McBean began producing Franciscan products, with the dinnerware line started about 1934. Metlox Manufacturing Company bear figurines. Wallace China made restaurant ware in Huntington Park, California, from 1931 until about 1964. Some marks are made up of letters listed in alphabetical order. Kay the Potter (Kay Kinney) dog figurine. Martin Stangl was a ceramic engineer first hired by Fulper in 1910. Impressed manufacturer's mark to verso of each example 'Chelsea Keramic Art Works, Robertson & Sons'. Pixieware had elf or pixie faces on stoppers and lids of jam, honey and other utilitarian jars for the table and kitchen. California pottery includes industrial, commercial, and decorative pottery produced in the Northern California and Southern California regions of the U.S. state of California. The marks may be a large impressed circle with "Ovenware" and USA or "Eve-N-Bake." Much of the Universal production was marked with a round stamp, but Ballerina has a rectangular stamp with the ballerina logo. Identify the differences in U.S. ceramics and information about the manufacturing process. The beginning of Rowe Pottery Works. The pottery company Hagen Renaker (see separate page) assisted Roselane with the distribution of their pieces from 1965 to 1967 and many ended up with H-R stickers. Michael and Lori Palmer wrote a book on (affiliate link) The Charleton Line published by Schiffer Books. The photos are grouped as follows:: Art Pottery Commemoratives Accessories Dinnerware Patterns Art Pottery Commemoratives Accessories Dinnerware Patterns The dinnerware patterns are sorted alphabetically by pattern name. Whether its English pottery marks or German porcelain marks, Japanese vintage backstamps or Chinese seal marks, the abundance of unknown branding logos sometimes can seem like a frighteningly huge subject to tackle. The "Big Five"[5] California potteries, from the 1930s to the 1960s in reference to the range of products and output, were Vernon Kilns, J.A. The pottery is best known for its bright, island-inspired matte and glossy glazes. Stangl made bird figurines along with hand-painted dinnerware, decorator items and jewelry. Goss Vermont is marked with a script "Goss" and printed "Vermont" in a red clay body. A The Nemadji Collectors Club has more information for those interested. Without the Metlox name in the mark, searching for "California Pottery" on the internet is almost pointless. Out of Hand offers group or individual classes and conducted special Christmas ornament classes in 2011. Bauer expanded to Atlanta in 1945, producing Russel Wright designs for a short time. From 1932-1942: "Pacific Pottery" tableware, kitchenware, art ware & figurines. Pacific Clay Products continues to manufacture sewer pipe. Lawton Gonder took over the old Zane Pottery building in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1941 and operated Gonder Ceramic Arts until about 1955. George RumRill was born in Gainesville, Texas, but worked from Little Rock, Arkansas to get his designs produced by the potteries. Blue Mountain pottery comes from Collingwood, Ontario, Canada, operating from about 1947 to 2004. Metlox and Vernon Kilns were related companies, but production was not the same. Catalina Clay Products made pottery from dark red or white clay, or a mix of both. Most of the Haeger pottery on the secondary market today was made in the last 50 years. McMaster Pottery was located in Dundas, Ontario, Canada from 1938 until 1988. Rosemeade made some swirl pottery, but most of its pottery production was molded. Blue Mountain pottery isn't often marked, but drip glaze on red clay helps with identification. It made "Corn King" for which it is best known, but it also produced salt and pepper shakers and extensive lines of kitchenware, along with flower pots and planters. "Gabriel Pasadena" is also a Winfield China mark, used after American Ceramic Products Company (formerly La Mirada) took over the Winfield name in the 1940s. Old Ivory is the near-translucent body used on its fine china. The name was changed to Hyalyn-Cosco and later Hyalyn Pottery. Ceramics that are white or off-white, often high-fired, including vitreous china and ironstone, and usually used for dinnerware or bathroom sets. Adams Ironstone c1962 Bishop & Stonier Bisto Mark Capodimonte Crowned N Capodimonte N artist T Galli Choisy le Roi French c1930 Crown Devon c1917 to c1930 Crown Devon c1930 on Ernst Wahliss Vienna Mark This page was last edited on 3 June 2021, at 03:06. The Kenwood mark is also Shawnee pottery. Mid-Century Art Deco California Pottery Blue Dove Bird Indoor Planter ScrantonAntique (277) $125.00 FREE shipping Madeleine Originals California U.S.A. Bauer Pottery two handled vase by Matt Carlton. 2> Pottery; Roseville Raymor fruit bowl in avocado green. Catalog Number 1996.0344.04 Baldwin, Cinda K. 2023 Terry Kovel and Ralph & Terry Kovel & Kim Kovel. Blue Mountain started with purchased blanks, but began producing red clay bodies with drip glazes around 1953. Southern California Ceramic Company/California Art Products, Inc. Southern California Clay Products (California Clay Products after 1923), Southern California Coal and Clay Company (Pacific Sewer Pipe Company after 1910), Triangle Studios (Vallona Starr Ceramics), Tropico Potteries (Gladding, McBean & Co. after 1923), Tile, architectural terra cotta & sewer pipe, Weil of California (California Figurine Company prior to 1946), West Coast Tile Company (American Encaustic Tiling Company after 1919), Western Art Tile Company (Tropico Potteries after 1921), Will-George (became The Claysmiths in 1945), Winfield Pottery Gabriel Porcelain Pottery, "Winfield" "Gabriel Porcelain" tableware, art ware & figurines. If we have more information on the pottery mark or piece, you can click on the image to open that section. Some Watt pottery was fired at temperatures that allowed it to be used for baking in the oven. Vases, lamps and wall sconces were common production as well. It also decorated porcelain and pottery as well as glass, including lamps, clocks and figurines. The mark is stamped in small print but with excellent detail. Reference: Potteries Across Texas website 02 of 55 Amphora The Spruce / Jay B. Siegel Mark Ca. If you had a name, however, that would be waaaaay too easy. Rookwood Pottery of Cincinnati, Ohio was the most famous American pottery at the turn of the 20th century, and much of the early Rookwood was hand-painted by artists, using the pottery as a canvas. Royal China made many dinnerware patterns over the 50 years in existence. Shaw purchased Vernon Kilns and the Vernonware name in 1958. Kaye or Kaye of Hollywood made figurines in Hollywood, California, usually signed "Kaye" in script. Frankoma changed the clay base several times, had several fires, and acquired Synar Pottery in the 1950s. 4 h 4 dia in. Bennett Pottery Company Records NMAH.AC.0213 Page 2 of 4 Biographical Note Bennett was the founder of the Edwin Bennett Pottery Company, Baltimore, Maryland which operated 1846-1936. Vernon introduced their first solid color dinnerware line " Early California " on Montecito. Provenance: Property from the collection of Richard Guzauskas, Palm Springs, California. Out of Hand allows visitors to glaze cups and plates for a fee that includes firing. Hagen-Renaker minis are often glued to a small card with the company name. Get the best deals on California Pottery Pottery & Glass when you shop the largest online selection at eBay.com. Learn how to distinguish American pottery by clay color, the base, numbers written on the foot, glaze type and the weight. They used a pitcher and bowl set, a chamber pot, a toothbrush cup and assorted pieces in the bath area. The Conversation shape was a Walter Dorwin Teague design from the early 1950s, but LuRay was the most famous product made in the 1930s. This pottery is now Onion River Pottery, known for maple syrup jugs and advertising ware for enterprises around the state. Red Pot Marked Calif. U.S.A. Although this mini pitcher is marked only "Made in California" it is typical Guppy's pottery production. Shawnee is sometimes marked in the mold with a raised mark. Bauer closed in 1962 as a result of a union strike. This pottery made figurines and planters, candleholders and home accessories from about 1933 through 1947 in Burbank. Howard Pierce operated his pottery in Claremont, California, starting in 1941, moving to Joshua Tree, California about 1968. Ben Owen was sole potter at Jugtown for several years in the 1930s. His pottery is utilitarian stoneware with unusual glazes, signed with the name in bold hand. Jeff and Linda Potts changed the name from Potts Town to Potts Pottery. Some Haeger pottery has a paper label and Haeger Floral is one of the less common labels we see. Rick Wisecarver was both potter and artist, working in Roseville, Ohio. Brastoff designed a Roman line for Royal Haeger and worked in metal sculpture, jewelry and holograms before his death in 1993. Bauer Pottery after 1950), California Brick and Tile Company (formerly Owens Brick Company, Figurines, giftware, tableware & art ware, California Ceramics (Ceramic Manufacturing Company), California China Products Company (CCPCo), California Figurine Company (Weil of California after 1946), "Weil Ware" giftware, artware, tableware & figurines, Tableware, art ware, tile, giftware & figurines, Giftware, kitchenware, art ware & figurines, Crest China Company (Royal Crest China after 1952), Cookie jars, kitchenware, giftware, & planters, Douglass Clay Products Company (Pacific Sewer Pipe after 1910), Flintridge China Company (Gorham after 1970), "Clay in Mind" planters, cookware, & giftware, Grand Feu Art Pottery (Brauckman Art Pottery), Heirlooms of Tomorrow (California Originals after 1955). Eric Hellman of Van Briggle and Garden of the Gods fame developed the swirled paint pottery in 1929, and Nemadji made pots with clay from the Nemadji river and swirled paint until 2002. These related businesses were glazed with the guidance of Ethel Harris, as she supervised San Jose Potteries in her work with the Works Progress Administration (WPA), an effort to put people back to work in the 1930s performing reconstruction and public works projects. Treasuresof.com lists a little more information about the Stegall's Pottery and Crafts Gallery, along with some contact information, if you're looking to visit the pottery. Goss was made in Winooski, Middlebury and several Vermont towns over the years since 1970. The words "Gout de Ville" are in the outer circle. Warwick China made pottery and dinnerware from semi-porcelain and vitrified china in Wheeling, W. Va. from the turn of the 20th century until about 1951. Including a tan Silhouette planter, raised Roseville U.S.A. 756 mark; Florane vase, raised R U.S.A. 80-6; Three pieces of pottery including: 1> RosevilleThree pieces of pottery including: 1> Roseville Raymor bowl in mottled green. with three numbers for the shape. As people moved into California after statehood in 1848, the demand for ceramic products grew exponentially. Top 10 Tips For Smart Flea Market Shopping. Initially, they began producing many of the same items that had been made in Paducah, but they didn't stop there. Roselane Pottery was in Pasadena, California and then Baldwin Park, California, operating from the 1930s until it was sold in 1973. Other marks on Roselane pieces are indented stamps on the larger figurines and print stamps on the smaller ones. Some work is marked with two children holding a wreath marked "California Cleminsons." A Winstanley model of a recumbent grey and A Winstanley model of a recumbent grey and white tabby cat with yellow eyes and with painted signature to base. Kay Finch Ceramics cocker spaniel dog figurine. Next in size was the Trenton area, followed by East Liverpool, and a few in the middle west such as Ceramic Arts Studio, Red Wing Pottery and Haeger Potteries.[3]. This was one of California's largest pottery operations, with plants in Los Angeles, Alberhill, Santa Monica and Glendale. You'll occasionally see a thin-walled chocolate pot or fine dish made by Hampshire. Wallace China started in Huntington Beach California in the 1930's. Desert Ware was a popular line of restaurant dinnerware during the 1930's & 1940's. The company relocated to Vernon California and continued operations there until 1959 when Shenango acquired Wallace China. The Vernon Owens family operates Jugtown Pottery. Russel Wright designed White Clover, produced by Harker in the early 1950s. Shawnee Pottery was one of the Zanesville, Ohio potteries. Many figurines are marked in the mold, but pixies are often unmarked unless they are attached to a planter. (1) After they had settled down, they decided they would start a wholesale business to date . Taylor, Smith and Taylor was a dinnerware company in Chester, West Virginia, from 1899 through the 1970s. [2] Vernon produced ceramic tableware, art ware, giftware, and . Roseville is usually marked in the mold with a script mark with a long tail on the "R" but yellow clay is a trademark of Ohio potteries. Antique marks are listed according to their shapes. See their recent pieces at the Louisville Stoneware website. Hall China made dinnerware, kitchenware and advertising items along with Autumn Leaf for Jewel Tea Company. What started in the Pacific Palisades as an awkward meeting between the two quickly blossomed into a relationship -and marriage- which gave rise to one of the most successful power couples in Southern California in the 1940s. BUY, SELL & VALUE California Pottery - FIND TODAY's SELECTED California Pottery offered FOR SALE, BEST OFFER and Auction. The two most common marks on Jones's stoneware are "Evan R. Jones/Pittson PA. and Evan B. Jones/Pittson/PENNA." It operated in Saint John, New Brunswick and later LaBelle, Quebec, producing Evangeline Ware and other products in both white and red clay. The business offers "paint your own" pottery days for children and adults, so you may find some unusual pieces. DeLee pieces are hand-painted, often with closed eyes and long lashes or scared-open eyes. 01 of 55 Alamo Pottery The Spruce / Pamela Wiggins This mark used ca. If you're new to looking at pottery, any marks you find may seem cryptic and random. Georgia Art Pottery was started in 1907 in Alvaton, Ga. by W. T. B. Gordy, father of W. J. Gordy. [citation needed] Around Los Angeles there were over 300 producers of figurines. Large bowl manufactured before 1952. The basic shape came in numerous decal patterns, some in flashy 1970s style. Joseph VonTury came to the U.S. from Hungary in 1932, first working in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and eventually settling in Metuchen, New Jersey. Lot 92: Arthur Conant for Rookwood Pottery. The Owen and Teague families were Jugtown potters, and some of the Owen family added an "s" to the name. Arequipa Pottery was an early twentieth century Arts and Crafts pottery manufacturer whose pottery is currently valued at anything from a few hundred dollars to several thousand dollars. Metlox opened in 1927 in Manhattan Beach, California, and was producing Poppytrail dinnerware in 1932. This is precisely the reason for this website! Shenango marks are stamped in black and include a coded manufacturing date. 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