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Your Price: $ 24.00
Item Number: shawnee3085
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Circa: 1950
Manufacturer: Shawnee Pottert Company/Made in USA
This pastel colored pottery planter made by the Shawnee Pottery Company of Zanesville, Ohio is marked: USA #506.
According to Shawnee Pottery by Bev and Jim Mangus, the company apparently began operations at just the right time. In 1937 Americans were beginning to feel hostility towards Germany and Japan and their imports. Buy American campaigns were conducted. Thus laid the foundation for Shawnee to produce pottery and dinnerware for the United States.
The company was mass producers of utilitarian household pottery items such as cookie jars, salt and pepper shakers, planters, vases, dinnerware and more.
They advertised the company could produce 100,000 ceramic items per day.
Companies such as Woolworth, McCrory, S. S. Kresge and Sears Roebuck and Company all became customers/outlets for Shawnee Pottery, helping the fledgling company become established. The various companies supplied the designs for their products and promised to purchase them.
After WWII, aggressive competition from foreign markets resulted in reduced sales. In 1961, the company closed its doors.
Finely made in colors of yellow, rose and blue with a white interior and it sports 8 wheel spokes.
In very good condition, without chips, cracks or fleabites it does have water stains inside which I have shown in my pictures and it measures 3 1/4 inches tall, 4 3/4 inches long and 3 1/2 inches wide.
A nice way to display any small flowering plant such as an african violet and an addition to any Shawnee Pottery Collection.
SH & Ins. will be quoted after orders placed. If you have questions please contact me and thank you for looking. |
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