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Saffronware Five Inch Mixing Bowl with Pink and Blue Bands
This is a small mixing bowl that Red Wing Union Stoneware made in their saffronware clay with six bands of glaze, two in pink and four in blue, around the outside. Vertical ridges decorate the bowl's exterior below the bands. This bowl is five inches in diameter, which is a very difficult size to find, since Red Wing Union Stoneware made so few of them. This bowl has no cracks or hairlines. It does have a 1/2 inch wide flake on the bottom of the shoulder. The flake is so shallow that it is hardly noticable and doesn' really even qualify as a flake at all. The upper edge of the bowl is a little rough, and the bowl does have a clay bubble and glaze skips which are normal manufacturing effects and not damage.
Red Wing Union Stoneware Company's Saffronware line of kitchenware offered several shapes of containers, casseroles, pitchers, mugs and other useful tools. Saffronware is distinctive with its cream and brown banding. Red Wing used a lighter weight, more porous clay for Saffronware than their usual stoneware clay. As soon as the Red Wing stoneware companies started making larger, utilitarian stoneware they made smaller stoneware pieces for use in the kitchen and on the table. The stoneware companies of Red Wing, Minnesota produced stoneware items shortly after their inception in 1877 until the mid-1940's. The shapes of these items ranged widely. However, one overriding attribute describes them all: they were designed to be used. In fulfilling the needs of a developing America, the stoneware companies were hugely successful and their wares were very popular. The popularity of their wares has only increased over time making collecting Red Wing a growing field and exciting hobby!
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