Stanley Ballard was an Alfred University graduate in ceramics in 1939 who produced pottery in the mid-century modern style. Charleton Decorating Company operated in New York, New York starting about 1941 and was a branch of Abels, Wasserberg & Co. Charleton decorated wares for many companies, including Fenton, Cambridge, Westmoreland and Consolidated Glass. The Lawrence County Historical Society maintains an article on the history of Shenango China, if you want more in-depth information. The California company used the K.T.K. Many of the Metlox Poppytrail marks had the design name on the stamped mark, including California Ivy, one of the most popular patterns. To read this article and over 25,000 more try Kovels Membership FREE for 7 Days Kovels Knowledge Members get full access to 25,000 articles on antiques and collectibles from 60 years of publication. Some marks include the shape name such as Ever Yours. With sunlight year round, an abundance of raw materials, and relatively inexpensive natural gas, California became competitive with centers of ceramic production such as the "Pottery Capital of the World" East Liverpool, Ohio and Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. Keep in mind only a lucky few got a mark added at the factory: we're talking a 50/50 chance. Mogle decorated Camark Pottery from 1947 until about 1958, when he decorated glass products until about 1965. Russel Wright designed White Clover, produced by Harker in the early 1950s. This was one of California's largest pottery operations, with plants in Los Angeles, Alberhill, Santa Monica and Glendale. 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. LaSolana started in Solana, California, in the 1940s, and moved to Glendale and later Scottsdale, Arizona, with distinctive mid-century modern dinnerware the primary output at the Mesa factory. marked vitreous china with "Syracuse China" before the turn of the 20th century. 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. Pieces are occasionally marked ROMCO USA and sometimes have a paper label like the one shown. 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. This company made yellow ware and hand painted dinnerware similar to Watt Pottery. Haeger made Royal Haeger while Royal Hickman was affiliated with the company. Only a fraction of California potteries survived this competition through the early 1960s. Wallace China of Los Angeles California. The first products were plaster, but by the 1940s, the business was making pottery figurines, flower holders and useful accessories for the table. 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. Paper labels are the least permanent marks, and many companies used a paper label and another method for marking wares. These photos are offered for your enjoyment and for researching and identifying patterns and commemoratives. 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. Brock (Southern California Pottery Company), "Brock" "Brock Ware" "Grantcrest" tableware, "Bauer 2000" Tableware, art ware & kitchenware, Brusche Ceramics/Brusche Ceramics of California (J.A. Gladding, McBean & Co. Franciscan ware Wild Flowers pattern pitcher. Most of the Haeger pottery on the secondary market today was made in the last 50 years. Pflatzgraff manufactured bone china in the U.S. starting in 1988. 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. McMaster used red clay and a drip glaze much like Blue Mountain starting in the 1950s. Vernon Kilns was an American ceramic company in Vernon, California, US. Bottles were gourd-like; a few, asymmetrical (21) like certain gourds; others bilobate as are gourds; the scoop was but a gourd cut in half; and pottery rattles were like the gourd ones. The most active period for the production of household ceramics including tableware, kitchenware, giftware, and art ware was from the 1930s through the 1960s. It also decorated porcelain and pottery as well as glass, including lamps, clocks and figurines. Shenango became a division of Syracuse China about 1990. In 1991, it moved to Edgerton, Wisconsin and expanded production, employing eight production potters and around 35 people total. If we have more information on the pottery mark or piece, you can click on the image to open that section. Pixieware had elf or pixie faces on stoppers and lids of jam, honey and other utilitarian jars for the table and kitchen. Chohlidakis pottery distribution seems to be primarily in Texas and California. His pottery is utilitarian stoneware with unusual glazes, signed with the name in bold hand. Rick Wisecarver was both potter and artist, working in Roseville, Ohio. Roselane Pottery was in Pasadena, California and then Baldwin Park, California, operating from the 1930s until it was sold in 1973. Shenango Pottery operated independently but had invested money in Castleton, and by 1951 had taken over Castleton, changing the name to Shenango China in 1954. Watt Pottery made yellow clay pottery in Crooksville, Ohio, from about 1922 until 1965. The mark is a round red stamp but may also be an incised clay mark. Between 1955 and 1957, Gonder produced tile. Marks are incised or cut into the wet clay, impressed with a tool into the wet clay or stamped with a machine and ink on dry clay. The clay was a light beige, and most pieces are hand-signed in script in the wet clay. (Ed. California pottery includes industrial, commercial, and decorative pottery produced in the Northern California and Southern California regions of the U.S. state of California. Castleton China began production about 1939 in New Castle, Pennsylvania under an agreement with Rosenthal, a German porcelain company. 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. Rosemeade Pottery started as Wahpeton Pottery about 1940, in Wahpeton, North Dakota. Bauer purchased Cemar Pottery molds in 1955 and made Cemar designs at the Bauer factory. Bought by Universal Rundle Corp. in 1951. ExclusivelyEmma (178) $42.00 Vintage Matte Pink Hexagonal Double Square Design California Pottery Marked 8118 GreenSagedotcom (301) $24.80 California pottery includes industrial, commercial, and decorative pottery produced in the Northern California and Southern California regions of the U.S. state of California. Hyalyn produced useful accessories for the home, including ashtrays, plaques, vases and table service items. Ben Seibel, a famous 20th century designer of dinnerware, with designs for Iroquois, Steubenville, Roseville Raymor and Mikasa, designed some of the Universal lines. There many different Poppytrail marks: (1) "Poppytail " on a 45 degree angle across an outline of the state of California; (2) flower with "MADE IN / CALIFORNIA / Poppytrail / POTTERY / BY/ METLOX"; and (3) circular mark with "POPPY TRAIL" in upper arch, "MADE IN CALIFORNIA" in reverse bottom arch, and "BY /METLOX" in center. Starting business in Ohio in the 1870s, this company opened the Newell, W.Va. plant about 1907. Originally started by Edith Heath in 1948, this pottery uses one firing process and mid-century modern designs for quality dinnerware and decorative items, including tiles. California Life, California Seaside and Cerama-Stone were designed by in-house designer, Ted Scarpino; California Holiday was designed by award-winning potter Edith Heath; and California Living, which won the Museum of Modern Art's "Good Design Award" in 1951, was designed by Caleb Jackson and Ted Scarpino. For more information on Homer Laughlin, see The Homer Laughlin China Company. 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. History of Jaru Pottery. Here's an article on Historic Loveland Pottery with some brief information. Roseville Art Pottery. This company used paper labels and not many remain. Architect Julia Morgan used tiles to adorn her buildings including the Hearst Castle in the 1920s. Sascha Brastoff operated a pottery in Los Angeles starting about 1952. Ceramics include terra cotta, earthenware, porcelain, and stoneware products. It operated Synar as Gracetone Pottery through 1967. This mug has the LP signature for Linda Potts and the year it was made. Out of Hand is a Sonora, California company that offers ceramics and clay programs so that others may learn the craft. In July 1931, Faye G. Bennison purchased the former Poxon China pottery renaming the company Vernon Kilns. Winstanley Glass Eyed Cat, Marks to Underside, Winstanley Glass Eyed Cat, Marks to Underside, Stands 10 inches in height by 17.5 inches in Length. Brown family potters settled in Arden, North Carolina, in the 1920s. A Winstanley model of a seated Siamese cat A . "Currier and Ives," the most popular pattern, was given as premiums at the A&P grocery stores in the 1950s. This was called "Solana Ware" and the pottery was LaSolana Potteries, continuing operation through part of the 1980s. Hampshire Pottery operated from Keene, New Hampshire as early as the 1870s, continuing production until 1917. Kay Finch Ceramics went out of business about 1963. The Ferguson family maintains a website on Pigeon Forge Pottery. He created single-fired ceramics in a studio setting. 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. He completed his Master of Fine Arts from Claremont College in 1957 and taught ceramics in Walnut, California. Pfaltzgraff produced red clay flower pots during the Depression along with some figurines and art pottery. Hyalyn Porcelain operated in Hickory, North Carolina, starting about 1947. The Limoges Gout de Ville mark features two circles with a crown and the word "Limoges" in the center. Some marks are made up of letters listed in alphabetical order. It is unclear if this was a father and son duo or brothers. The stamped mark was a helmet and crossed swords with the name "Warwick" and sometimes "IOGA.". 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 Similar to marks on vintage Bauer. Hill Pottery in Trenton, New Jersey became Fulper Pottery, and Martin Stangl changed the name to Stangl Pottery in 1929. Tony Evans also made studio art glass. If you're new to looking at pottery, any marks you find may seem cryptic and random. Camark is noted for Lessell art pottery and handpainted flower designs, often over molded shapes. The Currier and Ives mark was in a cartouche; the Star Glow mark shows the name with a star. Winart made cups, mugs, tumblers and jugs. John Frank started Frankoma Pottery in Sapulpa, Oklahoma about 1936. Hall China made dinnerware and vitreous china in East Liverpool, Ohio, but production of Autumn Leaf made it famous, starting in 1933. This options two circles, one inside the opposite, which create a ring-like form. B. 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. A extra sophisticated marking is the round mark. Buy, sell and value in over 150+ specialist categories. Rockdale Union Stoneware produced salt-glazed stoneware. Robinson-Ransbottom produced crockery, but also produced art pottery with fantastic glazes. The approximate date of most of this pottery is 1880. Jeff and Linda Potts changed the name from Potts Town to Potts Pottery. As people moved into California after statehood in 1848, the demand for ceramic products grew exponentially. For more information on McCoy's history, see the McCoy Pottery website. 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