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Watering Can Shaped Planter in Copper Glaze
Red Wing Pottery started manufacturing this planter shape in 1938. Designed by the famous industrial designer, Belle Kogan, for Red Wing Potteries, this planter is covered inside and out in a multi-toned brown glaze called copper. Red Wing Pottery offered this copper glaze for only a short period of time in the 1930's. This planter has a comfortably shaped handle and is marked 768 RED WING on the bottom. This planter is in excellent condition with no chips or cracks. It does have some minor scuff marks on the bottom.
The Red Wing Stoneware companies produced limited amounts of art pottery in the nineteenth century. Over time, they increased their production. Art pottery production in volume probably started sometime shortly after the turn of the twentieth century, though it didn't become a significant portion of their business until the late 1920's. Over time, Red Wing Potteries produced an amazingly wide assortment of art pottery forms in many different colors. Prominent designers Belle Kogan and Charles Murphy contributed significantly to the art pottery lines. The bottoms of art pottery pieces are either glazed or unglazed. On the bottom of the glazed 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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