Information and help identifying American pottery bird figurines by the maker, the marks, clay colors, types and styles of figurines. The pottery closed in 1961. Vohann of California is a pottery in San Clemente that's been making giftware and bathroom accessories such as figural soap dishes and toothbrush holders since 1950. Other pieces are marked in the mold on the bottom, sometimes with a year or shape number. Haeger made Royal Haeger while Royal Hickman was affiliated with the company. Reference: Potteries Across Texas website 02 of 55 Amphora The Spruce / Jay B. Siegel Mark Ca. Production after Jack Carnes's death in 1958 was intermittent and the factory closed in 1982. B. Other pieces are unmarked but the glazes are unusual and often help identify the products. It produced vitreous porcelain for the restaurant trade as well as dinnerware for the American table. This pottery made figurines and planters, candleholders and home accessories from about 1933 through 1947 in Burbank. Evans Ceramics of Healdsburg, California, has produced pottery since about 1960. 1944 to 1951. Syracuse China started as Onondaga Pottery in Syracuse, New York. Camark used labels and a typewriter mark as well as identification in the mold. Enter at least 3 consecutive letters of the signature. Also marked "Bell" inside a bell design. Kovels Knowledge Members get full access to 25,000 articles on antiques and collectibles from 60 years of publication. Marked Raymor Roseville USA. McCoy was sold to Lancaster Colony Corporation in 1974 and production continued, but the mark reflected the LCC ownership. Description: A Van Briggle blue glazed pottery Lorelei vase 20th century Incised factory mark above Van Briggle / Colo Spgs / H/M Provenance: Property from the estate of Bobby Sang Diamond, Hancock Park California. A piebird and some other pieces of Cleminson pottery, California, are marked with an interlacing BC. Old Ivory was a colored clay body first available in 1926, followed by Adobe (tan body) in 1931. [citation needed] With imports cut off from European and Asian markets, small family-owned and larger potteries stepped in to fill the need for ceramic giftware and tableware throughout the United States. "The Clay Resources and the Ceramic Industry of California", "UCLA Special Collections - Finding Aid for the Max and Rita Lawrence Architectural Pottery Records, ca. In the 1950s, favorable trade agreements toward Asian countries contributed to a flood of competitively priced ceramic wares entering the United States market. No chips or cracks, just all-over faint crazing. Desert Sands Pottery, originally started by Arthur Evans, was in Boulder City, Nevada, producing swirl clay items from the 1940s until 1962. 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. Learn how to distinguish American pottery by clay color, the base, numbers written on the foot, glaze type and the weight. Homer Laughlin made sets of shapes of dinnerware and applied different decals, creating numerous variations. He died in 2010 at the age of 85 after a long life of pottery production. Out of Hand allows visitors to glaze cups and plates for a fee that includes firing. You can read more about the Gordy family in John A. Burrison's book entitled (affiliate link) Brothers in Clay: The Story of Georgia Folk Pottery. Sascha Brastoff (1981-1993) began his career in the Sculpture Center in Manhattan. McCoy Pottery was sold to Designer Accents in 1985 and closed in 1990. 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." Hagen-Renaker minis are often glued to a small card with the company name. Ceramics California Oakland Museum Milwaukee Art Museum Denver Art Museum Smart Museum Of Art Museum Of Fine Arts Weisman Art Museum Everson Museum Santa Barbara Museum Rodin Museum $4,995.00 Peter Voulkos Signed Mid-century Modern Stoneware Pottery Vase, Circa 1950s 1stDibs.com Beatrice Wood Pottery Marks Dining And Entertaining Earthenware Other marks are "Rocky Mountain Pottery Company Hand-Crafted.". Hagen-Renaker Pottery operated a pottery in Monrovia, California, starting in 1946. For a better look at the IOGA mark, see Kovels.com. That's understandable, since those "big five" firms, as they are known, produced countless vases, pitchers, and plates, as well as acres of ceramic tiles. Jimmie Lee Stewart started deLee about 1936 creating animal and people figurines, wall pockets and a few cookie jars until about 1958. This was one of California's largest pottery operations, with plants in Los Angeles, Alberhill, Santa Monica and Glendale. She used paper labels and ink stamps along with some in-mold marks with "Kay Finch California" in script or printed. The mark is stamped in small print but with excellent detail. Buildings needed roofs, floors, and sewer pipes. Our guess is that Carmel pottery was located in Carmel, California, but we have no information on this company. You'll find this shape with different decals. Very nice vintage art pottery; has incised mark on bottom: 'Artistic', California #505, and the initial C. It stands 5.5 tall x about 6 wide. The Tennessee Association of Craft Artists website indicates that the Stegalls make utilitarian stoneware as well as pottery. Figurines were elegant and fragile with lace similar to Dresden, Germany figurines, typical of the 1940s and 1950s. In the late 1970s, as a two-person pottery studio and shop, sales were made through art fairs and the studio showroom. These Southern California artists were no doubt inspired by the California pottery aesthetic of the 20th century, but their artistic sensibilities were too quirky or sophisticated for mainstream acceptance. If you are serious about learning pottery marks or identifying pottery, you'll need (affiliate link) Lois Lehner's Encyclopedia Of US Marks On Pottery, Porcelain and Clay along with the (affiliate link) Kovels' New Dictionary of Marks. Much of the Vallona Starr output wasn't marked, but some pieces are marked in the mold. Please don't copy our images but use them for free to help with identification of your pottery. Stilt marks: RumRill We don't know much about Carmel Pottery. Caliente Pottery was the name used by Virgil Haldeman for his pottery produced in Burbank, California at the Haldeman Pottery. Weil is often marked with a burro logo and the "Weil Ware" name, along with "Made in California." $35. They are known for their classic Arts and Crafts designs, as well as beautiful Art Noveau pieces. He established Cybis Porcelain in the 1950s and died in 1957. 8 Impressed mark, . Vintage California Pottery Ceramic Elephant Planter Figurine VintageCaliPottery (89) $28.00 $35.00 (20% off) Sunset Pottery California Pink Mid Century Large 13 1/4" Chop Plate CobblestoneGlass (337) $32.47 $64.95 (50% off) Vintage Matte Pink Hexagonal Double Square Design California Pottery Marked 8118 GreenSagedotcom (301) $24.80 Bauer purchased Cemar Pottery molds in 1955 and made Cemar designs at the Bauer factory. Lenox sold decorated ceramics at the Lenox Ceramic Art Company before the turn of the 20th century and started dinnerware production about 1902. The stamped mark was a helmet and crossed swords with the name "Warwick" and sometimes "IOGA.". Roselane Pottery was in Pasadena, California and then Baldwin Park, California, operating from the 1930s until it was sold in 1973. Vernon Kilns operated in the old Poxon China building in Vernon, California starting about 1931. The Franciscan Ware dinnerware line started about 1934 and continued until about 1984, producing hand-painted dinnerware patterns with accessories. Roseville Pottery's years of operation were from about 1890 until 1954, with the most desirable artware produced from about 1900 through the 1920s. It couldn't compete with imports after the 1950s and closed in 1967. You can read more about Sascha Brastoff in the (affiliate link) Collector's Encyclopedia of Sascha Brastoff: Identification & Values by Steve Conti, A. Dewayne Bethany and Bill Seay (1995). Niloak is known for swirl pottery called "Mission Ware" but it also made figurines and accessories for the home. He marks his work with a stylized "H" and the year or "Hunt" and the year. Much of the Lenox production ware was porcelain, but Temperware was heavy utilitarian dinnerware for the modern 1970s family. Among the first wares produced were those for utilitarian purposes (e.g., mugs and plates). David Gifford authored the (affiliate link) Collector's Guide to Camark Pottery: Identification & Values (Collector's Encyclopedia) and (affiliate link) Collector's Guide to Camark Pottery, Book 2: Identification & Values. Dryden used paper labels as well as in-mold and incised marks. Mosaic Tile Company used an entwined MTC in a circle for marking most of the tiles, but we see Mosaic in a racetrack oval on ashtrays and other Mosaic pieces. DeLee was marked with a foil sticker and sometimes a stamped mark on ecru clay. Dryden Pottery operated in Kansas from 1946 until 1956, when it moved to Arkansas. It moved to Loveland, Colorado in 1957. 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. Vernon introduced their first solid color dinnerware line " Early California " on Montecito. "Winfield Ware Santa Monica" is a mark used after the 1946 move from Pasadena to Santa Monica. Some marks are made up of letters listed in alphabetical order. Abingdon pottery made artware from about 1934 to 1950 in Abingdon, Illinois. Onondaga Pottery, sometimes marked O.P.Co, began business in New York about 1871 and is best known for restaurant ware. or Cal. Key milestones in the history of California pottery include: the arrival of Spanish settlers, the advent of Statehood and subsequent population growth, the arts and crafts movement, Great Depression, World War II era and the post-WWII onslaught of low-priced imports leading to a steep decline in the number of California potteries. The first products were plaster, but by the 1940s, the business was making pottery figurines, flower holders and useful accessories for the table. Hall China made dinnerware, kitchenware and advertising items along with Autumn Leaf for Jewel Tea Company. This pottery ceased business in the early 1960s, but its pottery is still available and reasonably priced. Information online shows the business still in operation on Clayton Road in 2012. W.T.B. Much of the Cherokee production is dated as well as marked with "Cherokee" and an arrow. Gladding, McBean & Co. grew from one factory manufacturing sewer pipe and architectural terra cotta in Lincoln, California to factories throughout California and the Pacific Northwest. Canuck Pottery started producing Evangeline Ware about 1938. The words "Gout de Ville" are in the outer circle. Shenango marks are stamped in black and include a coded manufacturing date. J. The Tropico Pottery mark was used on kitchenware (mixing bowls) and art ware from April 15, 1935 to December 31,1937. Paper labels are the least permanent marks, and many companies used a paper label and another method for marking wares. Paramount Theater tile mural by Gladding, McBean & Co., Oakland. RumRill was marked in the mold and usually included a shape number. Bought by Universal Rundle Corp. in 1951. California potters large and small have left a legacy of tableware design, collectibles, art, and architecture. Old Ivory is the near-translucent body used on its fine china. He created single-fired ceramics in a studio setting. This was called "Solana Ware" and the pottery was LaSolana Potteries, continuing operation through part of the 1980s. Dryden Hot Springs is one of the Arkansas marks used after the move, sometimes hand-written, sometimes in the mold. He used an impressed RD script in a circle to mark his work, but the chocolate stoneware and mid-century shapes also identify his legacy. Pixie Potters Millesan Drews Pixies by Millicent Andrews. Between 1955 and 1957, Gonder produced tile. The ceramics operation closed in 1953 and molds were sold, possibly to Gilner. Of compressed globular section above a gently concave base, the sides supporting a short spout surrounded by the intricately incised decoration including a mountainside village and inscription reading in part jingpin bu qun ('quality products cannot be grouped'), all suspended by a tall rectangular handle encircled by a raised ridge and straddling a fitted lid bearing a faintly impressed one . Pottery with this mark was produced in Primrose, Georgia, from 1935 until about 1955 when Gordy's son, D.X. DCP (Dundas Clay Products) and CPC (Canadian Porcelain Company) are marks related to the eCanada operation. Roselane made beautiful animals in Art Deco style and added plastic eyes to "Sparklers." By the fall of 1937, the company had established Broadmoor Art Pottery in Denver to take advantage of clay deposits in the Golden, Colorado, area. Catalina Pottery - Identification & Value. Hunt, Eric Hellman and Cecil Jones are names to look for in Broadmoor and Colorado pottery as they signed some of the products. Of course, Mid-Century Modern pottery was hardly an American phenomenon. Ben Owen was sole potter at Jugtown for several years in the 1930s. Helen Stiles, author of numerous books on the history of pottery, noted that Spanish, Mexican, and Chinese design of the 17th and 18th centuries all influenced the decoration of tile and other pottery in California.[1]. Those in the collection were gathered from a variety of excavations that include Old Sacramento SHP, Old Town San Diego SHP, Monterey SHP, Sonoma SHP and Fort Ross SHP. We are mostly including in our guide for the sake of completeness. Sometimes you can identify an unmarked plate with the USA impressed mark on a rounded ecru back, but most dinnerware sets had an individual stamp. Pat and Covey Stewart covered box with lid. Lightron Corporation purchased Cordey in 1969 and made lamps under the Schiller-Cordey name. A form number and identification of the . Blue Mountain pottery comes from Collingwood, Ontario, Canada, operating from about 1947 to 2004. Ozark Frontier was an early 1970s mark, according to G. L. Dybwad, author of (affiliate link) Dryden Pottery of Kansas and Arkansas: An Illustrated History, Catalog, and Price Guide, published in 2001. This pottery is sometimes marked McMaster Craft, and often has souvenir identification. Hear that thunder in the distance? The factory was sold in 1948 but operated under the Maddux of California name until about 1980. Sept. 1938 to Feb. 1939. Broadmoor Pottery opened in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1933 as Broadmoor Art Pottery & Tile Company, primarily for tile production. 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. Some of the marks identify the dinnerware as ironstone. McMaster Pottery was located in Dundas, Ontario, Canada from 1938 until 1988. So are "Heirloom," "Esmond" and "Kathy Kale.". Frederick Hurten Rhead, artistic director from 1927 until his death in 1942, gets credit for much of the success of HLC. Although you may not be able to read the mark, you'll recognize the German architecture of the building that is part of the logo. Bauer in 1962, and Metlox in 1988. The pottery is still in business in 2012. The round Jugtown Ware mark was used from the early 1920s until about 1960. 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. Castleton and Mayer were purchased from Shenango by Interpace in 1968. 1937 to 1942 C 806 is the shape number in the Catalina Pottery line made by Gladding, McBean & Co. 1937 to 1942 1937 to 1942 Used on Rancho tableware with or without Reg. The company made utilitarian art pottery and bathroom fixtures. Rosemeade Pottery started as Wahpeton Pottery about 1940, in Wahpeton, North Dakota. William Maddux made figurines, particularly birds, and the first Maddux pieces were marked "William Maddux" by hand. Other marks on Roselane pieces are indented stamps on the larger figurines and print stamps on the smaller ones. Vallona Starr made salt and pepper shakers you might find on the secondary market. The name was changed to Hyalyn-Cosco and later Hyalyn Pottery. 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