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Pompeii Dinner Plate
This is the largest plate offered in the Pompeii pattern. The dinner plate is decorated with images of six antiquarian vessels on the front while the back is glazed with the Pompeii brown. In a departure for Red Wing, Pompeii pattern incorporated stylized impression of ancient serving vessels. This pattern is quite unlike anything that they had made before. Instead of painting the design with a paintbrush, they stamped the design on the pieces. They used several different stamp sizes, shapes and glazes to produce the interesting end product. A brochure states of Pompeii, "A blend of brown, beige and soft blue in a new artistry of shape and form. Serving pieces in a deep grey with soft blue covers." Red Wing Potteries introduced their Duo-Tone line of dinnerware in 1962. This line was also called the Cylinder line because many of the serving pieces were fashioned in a cylindrical, non-tapering shape. Even the flatware had edges that curved vertically, with a cylindrical impression. All Duo-Tone designs are hand-painted, oven-proof, colorfast and detergent safe. Red Wing Potteries gradually converted from producing stoneware to dinnerware and art pottery. Starting in the 1930's and through their closure in 1967, Red Wing Potteries produced over a hundred different dinnerware patterns. Forms ranged from traditional shapes to the whimsical. Patterns included every design from floral motifs to the abstract. They produced heavy ceramic, fine china and economy dinnerware sets. Some patterns consisted of mostly flatware with few serving pieces. Some patterns consisted of only serving pieces. Other patterns had both. On the bottom of most Red Wing dinnerware pieces you will find three little dots. These dots are left in the glaze by the little tripod that the Potteries used to support the piece when they fired it in the kiln. The three dots are not damage, they are a remnant of the manufacturing process and authenticate the piece as being actual Red Wing.
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