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Pink Spice Sugar Bowl and Cover
This is a sugar bowl and its matching cover from the Pink Spice pattern. The sugar bowl is glazed pink on the outside and white on the inside. The outside is further textured with the Anniversary basketweave pattern. The cover has an attractive looped handle and is handpainted with the Pink Spice butterfly pattern. The sugar bowl is marked on the bottom with RED WING U.S.A. The sugar bowl has a minor 1/16 inch glaze flake on the upper rim. The sugar bowl cover also has a 1/16 inch flake on thhe bottom edge which cannot be seen while the cover is on the sugar bowl. The Pink Spice pattern of dinnerware is a particularly special choice of the hostess. Flatware designs include a bouquet of flowers in various shades of pink through lavender with a complementing butterfly in yellow. Serving pieces came in a pink glaze. Interestingly, when Red Wing first introduced Pink Spice, the serving pieces were more of a lavender shade. They soon changed the glaze to pink to match the name of the dinnerware. "Party giving and tablesetting can be fun with Pink Spice dinnerware," a brochure promises, "On a pastel cloth, with sparkling crystal, your Pink Spice dinnerware presents a delicate, 'tea party' air, displayed against a deep wine or forest green cloth, its color sparkles, its mood is gay." Red Wing Potteries introduced their Anniversary line of dinnerware in 1953 to celebrate their 75th year of being in business. Designed by Charles Murphy, this line was tremendously popular then and remains as popular today. The line introduced a bold. basket-weave texture on the serving pieces that was mimicked more subtly on the flatware. Bold, interesting, hand-painted designs were highlighted by complementary swaths of solid color. According to Red Wing Potteries, Anniversary line dinnerware provided "Elegance for Every Day in the year - beautifully hand-painted." All Anniversary 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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