California Pottery

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Pottery was for the patio, porcelain for the dinner table until the kilns of California began mass-producing and distributing imaginative, brightly colored tableware in the late 1920s. Today, the inventive forms and playful shapes of Calfironia pottery make it a much sought-after and highly prized collectible...

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• Used Book in Good Condition

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From the 1930s to the 1960s numerous potteries in Southern California turned out some of the finest figural pottery ever made in America. For decades these beautiful wares lingered in obscurity, but now they have rocketed to the forefront of collectibility...

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• Used Book in Good Condition

Description

First released in 1991, this pottery book has been greatly expanded, with hundreds of new color photographs and new information about the beautiful work of the potters of California. Over 30 different artists and companies are represented - company histories, interesting background information, as well as marks and signatures complement the gorgeous photographs found in each section...

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• Used Book in Good Condition

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Attention California pottery collectors: here's the book you've been waiting for! Jack Chipman, author of two editions of Collector's Encyclopedia of California Pottery and Collector's Encyclopedia of Bauer Pottery, has produced this new volume that covers many undocumented California pottery companies, including many that are not even mentioned in his Collector's Encyclopedia of California Pottery...

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The 1906 earthquake in San Francisco triggered not only a devastating three-day fire, but also a tuberculosis epidemic, a result of the ash- and dust-filled air. Working women were disproportionately afflicted with the disease...

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A complete collectors guide to vintage Walt Disney character ceramics produced in California from the 1930s through 1960s. Over 200 bright and vivid photographs capture the collectible works of Brayton Laguna, Vernon Kilns, American Pottery, Metlox and Hagen Renaker...

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• Used Book in Good Condition

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The bold shapes and startling patterns on dinnerware of the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s are displayed in over 480 dazzling color photographs. Much of the best work of six leading pottery manufacturers, Ak-Sar-Ben Pottery, Denwar Ceramics, Iroquois China Company, Laurel Potteries of California, Royal China Company, and Stetson China Company, is shown and described in detail...

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• Used Book in Good Condition

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The J.A. Bauer Company (1885-1962), known for its simple, colorful tableware, has become one of the most sought and valued lines of American pottery. Bauer pioneered the concept of solid color, mix-and-match dinnerware with their most popular lines of ring, plain ware, and Monterey Modern...

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• Used Book in Good Condition

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Pottery Barn describes as: Lustrous, smooth and cool to the touch, our Belgian Flax Linen Duvet Cover is woven from fine Belgian flax. It is enzyme washed for added softness, and its classic style complements a variety of patterns and styles...

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• 100% Belgian flax.
• Duvet cover reverses to the same.
• Duvet cover has button closure.
• Machine wash.