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Tropicana Bird of Paradise Console Bowl in Bronze and Yellow Glaze
This is a console bowl with a molded nature theme of flowers and foliage that comes from the Tropicana line and is called the "Bird of Paradise" theme.. The bowl is glazed in Mica Bronze glaze on the outside and Citron Yellow on the inside. This bowl was designed by famous industrial designer, Belle Kogan, for Red Wing Potteries in the early 1950's. It is marked with the impressed mold mark RED WING U.S.A. B2014 This bowl is in excellent condition with no chips or cracks. Red Wing Potteries produced a wide range of bowls. Compotes are merely bowls with a single footed stand. The Potteries devoted a significant portion of the art pottery production to bowls which is why we can find so many different shapes today. 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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