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Two Step Cereal Bowl
This is a cereal bowl from the Two Step pattern of dinnerware. It is glazed with brown fleck on the top and bottom while the top is further decorated with the handpainted Two Step design. Red Wing Potteries produced the hand-painted Two Step pattern dinnerware on lightly speckled Village Green shapes. The edge pattern design uses brown and turquoise loops to fashion an attractive, repeating, circular chain. A brochure states, "Two-Step dinnerware, the rural sophisticate. Gay, happy 'Two-Step' is party-right, patio perfect - tells all America to live in easy elegance. Flecked beige undertones highlighted by strong brown and turquoise whirls create a graceful pattern of color and harmony. Typical Red Wing quality. Imaginative Red Wing design." In 1951, Red Wing Potteries offered a large new line of dinnerware they called Village Green. Village Green is also the name of the predominant pattern in the line. The Potteries designed Village Green after Oomph Bakeware with which they had a great amount of success. Offered in both the traditional colors of Oomph and in new patterns, Village Green line dinnerware continued the tradition of success at the Potteries. One of the features that makes Village Green line dinnerware such a success is its characteristic stoneware look and feel. Heavy, substantial pieces, oftentimes with a variety of glaze imperfections, like glaze skips, bubbles, pops and streaks, give the dinnerware patterns a warm, used and distinctive feel. Not considered damage, these manufacturing glaze effects are highly desirable. All Village Green line dinnerware is "safe in the dish washer, in the oven in detergents." 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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