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Roseville Bleeding Heart Pattern
The Roseville Bleeding Heart pattern presentsp pink/white blossoms along a slender stem with trefoil foliage on shaded pink, green, or blue background, 1938. Mark: Roseville in relief. 42 total shapes: 37 numbered shapes used once, one used twice. Shape #651 (jardiniere) came in five sizes. Includes three unnumbered shapes (book ends, hanging basket, pedestal). Roseville did not produce a brown Bleeding Hearts, but brown fakes have been found. Bleeding Heart [...] Click here to continue reading.
Roseville Artcraft Pattern
The Roseville Artcraft Pattern originated in 1933. Artcraft is a line of as many as seven jardinieres, some with pedestals and one window box. Key decorative elements are the geometric and telescoping buttresses on four sides at the pot’s median line. Mark: foil label. Since it resembles Futura, Artcraft has above average popularity, but its availability is below average.
Colors:
Orange tan with green buttresses and interior
Green with [...] Click here to continue reading.
Roseville Apple Blossom Pattern
The Apple Blossom pattern presents a spray of white blossoms on pink, blue, or green background with brown twig handles, 1948. Mark: Roseville in relief. 48 total shapes: 38 used once in this line, eight used twice. Shape #371 was used three times for the teapot, cream and sugar. There is one unnumbered shape: hanging basket. All numbered Apple Blossom shapes begin with a “3.” Vases range from six to [...] Click here to continue reading.
Roseville Baneda Pattern
The Roseville Baneda pattern originated in 1932. The name combines “band,” which encircles the top third of the pot and “needs.” Flowers are white with five pointed petals and small, pumpkin-shaped berries. Leaves resemble holly. The background has vertical striations. All Baneda shapes except for the candlesticks have handles ending in a small round form where it attaches to the pot. Baneda is one of the most desirable middle period lines [...] Click here to continue reading.
Roseville Pottery Foxglove Pattern
Roseville’s Foxglove pattern presents one or two slender columns of blossoms with tapered leaves below on shaded pink/green, blue, or green background, 1940′s. Mark: Roseville in relief. 50 total shapes: 40 shapes were used once, four used twice and one, #659, the jardinieere, came in six sizes. The hanging basket, the pedestal and trays at 8,” 11,” and 15″ were unnumbered. There is no such thing as brown Foxglove, but [...] Click here to continue reading.
Roseville Pottery Poppy Pattern
Roseville’s Poppy pattern presents one or two white, yellow or pink poppy flowers on stems with deeply serrated zigzag leaf, 1930. Backgrounds include pink, cream/green, cream/pink, pink/green, yellow/blue gray, and yellow/brown. Mark: Roseville impressed. 41 total shapes: 36 were used once with another used twice. The vase, shape #648, came in three sizes. The bowl, shape #336, came in five sizes from 3″ to 10.” And shape #642, the jardiniere, [...] Click here to continue reading.
Yellowware Pottery
So named because of its light clay base and surface hues, yellowware can range in color from buff to a deep yellow. For feel and composition it occupies a middle ground between the more course redware and the more refined earthenware or stoneware. It was manufactured mostly in kitchen ware pieces by numerous potteries throughout the country, with important production centers in New Jersey and Ohio.
M. Woodruff & Co.
Madison Woodruff operated a pottery in Cortland, New York from 1849 to 1870. His wares included stoneware crocks, jugs and flasks. Three marks are known from his pottery: M. WOODRUFF/CORTLAND; M. WOODRUFF & CO/CORTLAND, and CORTLAND.
T. H. Willson & Co. Pottery
The first stoneware manufactured in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, came from the T. H. Willson & Co. pottery opened in 1852 by the brothers Thomas and Daniel Willson. They marked their wares “T. H. WILLSON & CO/HARRISBURG, PA” from that year until 1855. During this period they sometimes also marked their output with a stylized version of the new State Capitol building located in Harrisburg. The pottery is known for [...] Click here to continue reading.
Weller Potter ‘Zona’
Weller produced the Zona line including utilitarian and baby ware from 1911 to 1936. The Zona Cottage Sets and apple dinnerware latter became the Franciscan line of a west coast manufacturer as a result of Frederic Grant, president of the pottery in 1932, divorcing Sam Weller’s daughter Ethel.
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