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Happy the children
Wherever they are
Who live in a house
With a full cookie jar

That is the inscription on this cookie jar, a wonderful offering by the Red Wing Potteries in the middle of the twentieth century.

This cookie jar is in great condition, free of chips or cracks. It is missing its lid, but the lid may be available separately.

Red Wing Potteries first cookie jar probably debuted in 1938. In the early 1940's, however, cookie jar production was booming. The potteries added new cookie jar designs in the 1950's and again in the 1960's, though they dropped several of the older designs throughout that time. The potteries produced some of their cookie jars to match dinnerware patterns, but most were their own unique designs.

Similar to cookie jars, the potteries also produced other container shapes for holding just about everything the cook had in the kitchen.

"Kitchenware" was the actual term used by the Red Wing Potteries to describe utilitarian, yet decorative, wares designed for kitchen use in the new pottery clays and glazes of the art pottery era. The potteries produces a wide range of items for the hostess to use in the kitchen, table and patio areas.

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.

Parts

Part	Measurements
Cookie Jar	8.00 in (20.32 cm) Height 8.50 in (21.59 cm) Width 7.50 in (19.05 cm) Diameter

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Front of cookie jar.	Rear view of cookie jar.	Bottom of cookie jar.	Top of cookie jar.